Via Greenwire:

The ancient tradition of cremating bodies should be discontinued because of its possible contribution to global warming, an Australian scientist said today. Advocating burial over cremation, Professor Roger Short of the University of Melbourne said that incinerating bodies releases carbon dioxide that could otherwise be stored. An average Australian male will produce 110 pounds of CO2 during cremation. Short said the deceased should be buried in cardboard boxes under trees, where their decomposing bodies would feed that CO2 and valuable nutrients to the tree. “The important thing is, what a shame to be cremated when you go up in a big bubble of carbon dioxide,” Short said. “Why waste all that carbon dioxide on your death?” (Agence France-Presse).

As far as the English church is concerned, burial is traditional, and therefore right…