Posted on 06/04/2009 8:02:44 AM PDT by Schnucki
I was looking at the story in today's paper about how, according to Sir Jonathan Porritt, overweight people are damaging the planet (as it says in the paper version of our malleable product) and found myself trapped between mirth and incredulity. Are they, mayhap, leaving unsightly dents on the surface of our otherwise perfectly spherical globe? Or perhaps he's worried that they'll all lurch in the same direction simultaneously and accidentally knock the Earth off its axis?
I mean, surely this is the proof we were waiting for that the climate change lobby are gibbering lunatics? In an extraordinarily graphic flight of imagination Sir Jonathan alleged in a lecture described only as being "to the food industry" that overweight people eat more protein-rich food, such as beef or lamb, than the rest of us, therefore emitting more methane - like those pesky cows - and that they use cars (presumably they don't live in London) rather than cycling or walking, raising the spectre that he'd rather they were housebound (perhaps we could trap all that methane they produce inside using double glazing?)
Is it just me, or does anyone else worry that Sir Jonathan may have been bullied at school by someone of unwieldy - by his own exacting standards - dimensions? I mean, I hesitate to point this out, but the photograph that accompanies the story is suggestive of a certain dewlap-like quality around his own well-fed features. I suppose, since he's singling people out like this, he wouldn't regard any such remarks as offensive but would take them in the constructive sense in which they were intended.
As I blogged back in February, green politics has something for everyone. Authoritarian? Impose a solution involving making people sort through their rubbish and fine them if they refuse. Libertarian? Hey!
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People gotta do something with their lives. This is just an indication of how vacuous some folks’ lives are.
those pesky cows need to stop eating each other.
Fat people contribute to the plantet’s mass and, therefore, help support gravity more than the rest of us.
God bless ‘em.
“In an extraordinarily graphic flight of imagination Sir Jonathan alleged in a lecture described only as being ‘to the food industry’ that overweight people eat more protein-rich food, such as beef or lamb, than the rest of us, therefore emitting more methane - like those pesky cows -”
Better ban the cows because there are more cows on the planet than people.
A milk cow eats 25-30 pounds of feed and about 18 gallons of water EACH DAY, resulting in about 9 gallons of milk and who knows HOW much methane.
Better get rid of all of those big animals in Africa that do the same, if not worse, day in and day out! Bye-bye elephants, rhinos, giraffes, etc.
Stupid people. ;)
Environmentalism is the byproduct of a wealthy society. If you don't believe me, check out the beautiful countries of Mexico, India, & China. The environments there are being devastated.
Lets be honest the libs have wanted to go after Big fat like they have big Tobacco for *years* and using ‘global climate change’ (its already 5 degrees warmer now than earlier this morning) is just the in they have been looking for.
Expect first notices, then a little regulation, then a chicken wing tax..
Al Gore would argue that the Earth has a finite amount of gravity, and fat people, weighing more, are using it up faster than the rest of us!!!! Global degravication!!!
LOL!
(It won’t be so funny when they start having worldwide conferences on this “pressing issue”.)
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