Kill a camel, save the environment?

Here in the United States, proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are often met with a feds-are-killing-the-economy stare. But in Australia — a country anxious to shed the label of world’s largest carbon emitter per capita — companies are finding business opportunities. Like killing camels, for example.

Northwest Carbon recently submitted a novel proposal under Australia’s proposed Carbon Farming Initiative to have camel culls approved as a legitimate method to reduce emissions. If approved, the camels would be shot by marksmen or corralled alive and transported to an abattoir for slaughter, where the meat could be used for pet food and possibly human consumption. Big industrial polluters would be able to buy carbon credits from Northwest Carbon to offset their emissions. Put another camel ka-bob on the barbie!

Read more about Australia's novel approach to reducing carbon emissions by clicking on BNet's coverage.

[Edwin_Drake]

According to the most basic premise of man-made global warming, those camels are automatically carbon-neutral by virtue of their diet of wild foraging. And so killing them should result in zero carbon credits. I am astonished that the Australian governmental agency which is supposed to specialize in understanding carbon is getting this so backward.

The premise is: eating food which has been unnaturally enhanced via petroleum-based fertilizers adds to the carbon in the atmosphere whenever you exhale and fart. But as long as you never ingest petroleum-fertilized food, your breath and farts will remain carbon-neutral. Thus those camels are all 100% carbon neutral.

The people who work for that government agency and yet who proposed this foolishness should be fired for incompetence.

[tuathadedannan]

If this country was run by vegetarian women, instead of flesh eating men, this never would have happened.

[whattookyousolong]

The 27 million cows and 20 million sheep might be causing more of a greenhouse effect than the 1 million camels......
Scapegoat maybe?

[erasmus111]

Give me a gun and an air ticket to Australia. I will hunt the humans that are shooting the camels.