If a camel produces 45 Kilos of methane a year, the equivalent of a ton of carbon dioxide, how many camels are needed to get the emissions of a car that covers 20,000 Kilometres a year? The exact response is 4! In fact on average a car produces 4 tons of carbon dioxide a year.



If a country eliminates 4 camels it can allow itself a new car or it gains 4 credits valued at a tonne (the so called "carbon credits") to use for pollution or to sell on the world market for emissions. Killing camels is useful to respect the Kyoto protocols. They are a natural “Ecopass” {urban toll} with humps on. The Australian company Northwest Carbon has launched a camel extermination project to get the “carbon credits” for the local industries that will be able to pollute more. The project is being examined by the Australian parliament and plans to kill the camels from helicopters or by machines equipped for the desert. Their flesh will be used as dog food. The director of Northwest Carbon values the death of a camel in economic terms "a benefit for emissions reduction”. The camel is not aware of polluting and producing excrement without bothering about the future of the planet, but he’s not the only one that produces enormous quantities of gas. The cow is right behind him with 35 kilos of methane a year, equal to 0.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide. The elimination of most of the cows in the world would give a formidable boost to world production and to the development of GDP. However, the problem would keep coming back over time. Industrial production knows no limits. The most overpopulated countries will then be the most fortunate ones. They will be able to allow themselves a two or three figure growth rate. “Breathing produces approximately 2.3 pounds (1 kg) of carbon dioxide per day per person.” source: Wikipedia.
Anyone who has tens or hundreds of millions of people to wipe out from helicopters or by targeted bombing will be able to have an excessive increase in their GDP.

Sources: Jeremy Woods, Imperial College London; The Financial Times