Posted on 06/20/2014 6:18:15 AM PDT by Awgie
High rates of obesity in richer countries cause up to 1bn extra tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year, compared with countries with leaner populations, according to a study that assesses the additional food and fuel requirements of the overweight. The finding is particularly worrying, scientists say, because obesity is on the rise in many rich nations.
"Population fatness has an environmental impact," said Phil Edwards, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "We're all being told to stay fit and keep our weight down because it's good for our health. The important thing is that staying slim is good for your health and for the health of the planet."
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How can we ask Fat People to stop destroying the planet? After all it's about "LOVE!" Mmmmmm, I LOVE that double bacon cheeseburger! Hey, turn the AC on, it's warm in here!
Well, we must kill fat people in order to save the planet! If we can’t do that we can at least starve them into submission!
Well then, Amerika will need to pay a special FAT tax, in addition to the standard tax, to the UN.
Communism and collectivism is the answer! The tyrannical “central planning” will never produce enough food and there is mass starvation. Just think how good these systems are for the planet.
Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s Supreme Leader, is a man ahead of the times. When do we emigrate?
Watch for a UN-sanctioned Michelle Obama food plan to combat obesity.
Keeps Guam from turning over too.
Looks like we have a new bracket in the “which Lib special interest group trumps the other.” Fat acceptance vs. Enviro-whackos. Who wins this one?
More BS.
Yea the Whitehouse has to fly Mooshelle’s fat backside all over the world.
The true cause of Global Warming is Air Force One.
I wonder if they were visiting Colorado when they came up with the ‘idea’ for this study...
Kill all the fat people.
And those idiots who run marathons.
Can you even begin to imagine how much carbon is generated by thousands of people running 26 miles, for what? Just to say they did?
People exercising contributes tons upon tons of unnecessary carbon. Anything that increases your heart rate increases your carbon footprint.
Save the earth. Turn off the TV (another carbon creator) and sit on your @$$ and watch the grass grow (but don’t water it, there is a man caused drought going on) and don’t eat anything because you might get fat and then we might have to kill you too.
Progressives have a sizable dilemma. Fat women make up a huge, growing and ready made organized victim class. They could easily be blended into the buffet of identity politics that democrats relish.
But Greenie-Vegans who pride themselves at consuming less, in order to “save the planet” would feel conflicted by embracing “Fatties.”
It would most certainly lead to purging. And when Greenie-Vegans and Fatties meet to plan “Save The Planet Rally’s”, who would control the thermostat?
These climate change people make the bureaucrats of the Soviet Union look benign. Get rid of fat people? I am fat. Better not come after me,I’ll sit on your face and fart.
“Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance.
The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.”
The Mooch will get right on that after she finishes her meatball sub and other delicious sundries.
First, there was a government study that claimed cow farts caused Global Warming and now another government (that means taxpayer funded) government study claims that fat people fart more often than skinny folks and are causing Global Warming.
The stupidity of government/taxpayer funded Global Warming studies continues to amaze me.
Fat people eat more. Food production creates CO2.
Fat people ride more instead of walking or riding bikes. The cars and planes they use consume more fuel because of the extra weight.
Fat people are less healthy and use medical services like hospitals, ambulances and fire rescue trucks.
Fat people wear bigger clothes that use more natural resources to construct.
Fat people are killing Polar Bears!
I guess this idiot has not been to China
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