To cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming, an Aussie guy from Adelaide has declared war on camel farts. There was our problem!
Tim Moore is the managing director of Northwest Carbon and according to his math each camel roaming Australia’s outback releases roughly 45kg of methane per year – the equivalent of a tonne of CO2. He estimates that with each killed camel 15 tonnes of CO2 emissions would be prevented, which is how he plans to monetize this. If the Australian government will consider his plan to be eligible to benefit under its carbon initiatives, Tim could be earning carbon credits for the killed camels, credits which he would then trade for significant profits.
The only problem is that since Australia is so vast he’ll have to use helicopters and jeeps to get to the camels (burning large amounts of fossil fuel in the process). Nothing says environmentalism like shooting camels from helicopters.
