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Australia may slaughter its wild camels to fight climate change
The animals, who each belch out the equivalent of a transatlantic flight in emissions every year, are one of the country’s biggest sources of greenhouse gases.
AUSTRALIA IS MULLING over new proposals to tackle climate change by slaughtering its population of wild camels, whose flatulence is a major source of greenhouse gases.
The country’s government could award carbon credits for killing the animals under the scheme, which is one of several proposed in a consultation paper put together by the government’s climate change department.
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Each camel produces 45kg of methane every year, the equivalent of one tonne of carbon dioxide in greenhouse gas terms, the Australian Associated Press reports. That is more than the amount produced by a transatlantic flight. Australia has around 1.2million feral camels living in its outback – making them collectively one of the country’s biggest producers of greenhouse gases – and the number is projected to grow to two million by 2020.
The camel cull proposal was put forward by land consultants Northwest Carbon, which suggested they could be shot from helicopters or off-road vehicles.” According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Northwest Carbon director Tim Moore said: “We’re talking about a significant contributor to global climate change. By 2020, that’s 2 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions going into the atmosphere every year.”
Meat from the camels could be used for either human or pet consumption under the scheme. “We’re a nation of innovators,” Tim Moore added. “We find innovative solutions to our challenges – this is just a classic example.”
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I used to work for one of the companies with a very high score highlighted in the article and their HR department coordinates their presence on Glassdoor and the “Best places to work” competition. I would treat those ratings with a grain of salt
AIB- gambling taxpayer moneyPaddy Power- facilates gambling of net taxpayers money after the government has stolen its share, Ryanair-abusive to workers, Dunnes-abusive to workers- Ireland best companies, Ireland is in a sorry state
Gambling is an addiction. A vice.
Profiteering from other people’s misery is bad karma.
Dirty money.
You can dress up in a suit and present a smooth corporate image but at the end of the day it’s in the same category as heroin and crack cocaine dealing.
I wouldn’t like to have that on my conscience every time I opened my wage packet.
It’s called making an ethical choice Lotto.
I’m sure if you delve down deep enough in your own psyche you might find something you would refuse to do on ethical grounds.
I hope so.
25% of gambing addicts have committed a crime to fund their gambling.
One in five problem gamblers have attempted suicide. Twice the rate of other addictions.
The gambling addict will end up in one of three places.
Prison.
The psychiatric institution.
The morgue.
Yes you can get addicted to gambling, same goes for drugs, drink, tobacco. But in moderation gambling is the least problem causing. It’s all about self control, problems arise when you bet with money you haven’t got.. But gambling on Major competitions, festivals etc is fun. Do what you want with your extra money
“Problem gamblers such as Jim are “as miserable as cancer patients,”
“Being a problem gambler tripled the probability of extreme unhappiness,”
Prof David Forrest of the University of Liverpool, who studies gambling and is the author of a study called The Unhappiness of Problem Gamblers. “
A recent survey of the UK industry by three academics, Mark Griffiths, Jim Orford and Heather Wardle, “found that 30-35 per cent of the industry’s revenue comes from full-blown problem gamblers.
Dr Colin O’Gara, a consultant psychiatrist at St John of God Hospital and a researcher at the school of medicine at University College Dublin, has seen a dramatic increase in the number of patients with smartphone- and other online-gambling problems.
“Gambling may be a hobby for people, but it’s inherently an addictive behaviour,” he says. “Just like alcohol or drugs. It’s not harmless.”
Most heroin and crack dealers begin their operations by offering ‘freebies’ to users.
Online bookmakers like Paddy Power, Ladbrokes, BetFair (which is now a joint venture with Paddy Power) etc use social media to offer ‘new users’ free bets with the intention of parting them from their money on a regular basis further down the road.
Big time, screw Paddy Power and the rest of them. It’s great if you can have the odd bet etc but the look of misery of some of the lads hanging around those places. I always pity the family at home.
Any of the big accounting firms are horrendous to work for. Mediocre pay for ridiculous hours and stress all in the name of climbing the ladder to partner where you earn the big bucks and never see your family. Too many companies in Ireland trying to replicate their American parents working culture without realising it’s one of the reasons the US is so fooked up
Ryanair don’t give miles. Most airlines give free or reduced fares or standby travel to employees and family members. It’s cheap and cheerful for passengers and standby with restrictions for staff on Ryanair. The free or discount travel is lost when you leave.
If you worked for British Airways. Discount travel to employees and even after you left or retired the benefit was for life that included spouse and children. That’s when unions had teeth that secured benefits.
Why would Ryanair give cheap.flights to employees who leave? That may be the silliest complaint I’ve ever seen about them! And by the way air miles and other benefits like that are limited by European Union restrictions, there is nothing airlines can do about it
I work for an airline and did recruitment for ages within them. Wouldn’t touch Ryanair staff with a barge pole. So saying its a stepping stone into the industry is far from the mark!
Many of the Ryanair staff who did manage to get through turned out to be the biggest waste of space with the most appalling work ethic and customer service offered.
Tony, I work in the industry too but not with Ryanair, they didn’t get to be the most successful airline in Europe by having staff that are a “waste of space”. Whatever airline you work for could probably learn a few lessons from them.
My airline is a pretty huge well known one, in fact pretty topical when you look at what just happened to Aer Lingus and Iberia! Shall we say it was once the “worlds favourite”!
And yes Ryanair staff where never known for customer service ethic until recently when O’Leary suddenly realised that just maybe being nice does matter!
Right, so they’re not a “waste of space ” anymore. I think you’d find its Ryanair who wouldn’t entertain the unionised, constantly strike threatening staff from BA and Aer Lingus.
Values, what about the global company who introduced the ‘values’ to great fanfare and subsequently the MD would announce at every opportunity that the Values were a load of S***E.
Don’t believe the ‘Values’ are anything other than Spin and do some research.
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