Posted on 06/09/2011 6:16:22 AM PDT by rellimpank
Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been trampling the Outback for more than a century.
The government has proposed that killing camels be officially registered as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels _ an estimated 1.2 million _ and considers them to be a growing environmental problem.
The proposal, released for public comment this week, would allow sharpshooters to earn so-called carbon credits for slaughtering camels. Industrial polluters around the world could buy the credits to offset their own carbon emissions.
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Wonder what PETA will think of this?
Are they insane down under?...........................
I didn’t even know there were camels in Australia.
Using this rationale killing off the Buffalo herds 100+ years ago was a good thing despite it decimating the tribes.
Cash for humpers.
....look at how wild horses have destroyed the range for indigenous species like Bighorn Sheep...
I say regulate the species like any other...if they overpopulate, issue more hunting tags...
as far as methane? that is a non issue..
Ya know, people emit CO2 and methane, too. Hmmm...
PETA vs Warmers
How do these good folks come to believe this will reduce CO2. The camels don’t create CO2 from some magical process. They digest the plants they eat which creates camel meat, camel poop, camel pee, and camel farts. If those plants don’t pass through a camel, then they will just pass through smaller animals, insects, and microbes, eventually producing the same CO2.
Save the Oz camels, save the Oz camels!!
This glo-bull warming insanity is comepletely out of hand at this point. Go ahead and kill a few camels Ozzies. We have millions of head of cattle in this country to more than make up for them.
And what about all the illegals in this country, I am sure all those taco’s and burritos make them rather flatulent.....hey, maybe I could be on to something here.....!
Well, it’s much better than shooting automobile drivers to curb CO2 emissions, as some envirowacks would like to do.
And with the planet being "Full" according to New York Times Thomas Freidman.
Beware Soylent Green!
I didn’t even know there were camels in Australia.
“People emit CO2 and methane, too”
My husband says my chili recipe could destroy the ozone. (well, he could do that on his own!)
Heard the definition of a camel one time. It’s a horse built by a committee.
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