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Lauren Keith muses on the confluence of religion and environmentalism, alongside a tongue-in-cheek summary of the Green Commandments.

“We cannot ignore deforestation by loggers who violate the country’s laws and … threaten tribal Indians and others who depend on (the Amazon),” he said.

The Pope is expected to use his first address to the United Nations to deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a "moral" cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following.

That's right. Pope Benedict XVI is fast becoming a world leader in environmental activism. Can his progressive stance on environmental responsibility position an estimated one billion or more Catholics to take environmental action? Pope: concerned over "the growing recognition of the need to preserve the environment."