Temporada de camellos

Vean los extremos de locura a que se llega por los incentivos gubernamentales... en este caso, incentivo al fundamentalismo ambiental. Hay un episodio de Futurama muy parecido a esto (pero con pinguinos).

Under the name of "Management of large feral herbivores in the Australian rangelands", an Australian company has applied for a patent to "obtain a carbon offset credit or emission permit" for ... wait for it ... shooting camels from helicopters based on the theory that camels emit enough methane from their rear ends to be impacting climate. [...]

Camello emitiendo contaminación

But what’s an enterprising company, in this case Northwest Carbon Pty Ltd, to do when the government itself, acting like believers in a gods-appeasing Aztec animal sacrifice, "identifies feral animal management as an emission reduction causing action"? If the government is going to hand out money for doing something, even if that thing is somewhere between silly and destructive, so be it; let’s get the cash. Northwest Carbon is simply responding to government incentives, just as millions of Americans responded to government incentives by buying homes they couldn’t afford, perhaps closer to destructive than silly we may agree.

Leanlo todo, es cortito y demoledor.