LONDON (Reuters) - Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler," and food production is a major source of greenhouse gases, researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in their study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
"We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend toward fatness, and recognize it as a key factor in the battle to reduce (carbon) emissions and slow climate change," the British scientists said.They estimated that each fat person is responsible for about one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions a year more on average than each thin person, adding up to an extra one billion tonnes of CO2 a year in a population of one billion overweight people.
The European Union estimates each EU citizen accounts for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.
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Do you believe this crap? Enough of this greenhouse shit already. If we want to eat until our asses explode, so be it! Just make sure this fatso doesn't come to my buffet...
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I think when these big people pass gas the methane goes up but that is about it. Ha
Once the anti-smoking lobby wins the war against smokers they'll go after fat people.
This is just laying the ground work.
The lifestyle nazis are fighting the long fight.
If they ever win the war against fat people, don't think that the rest of us aren't gonna be next.
That said, when obesity becomes a leading indicator of poverty, something funny is going on.
Dammit, I was trying to forget that this POS article existed. ;)
I just love how "they" (you know who they are) pick and choose groups to pin problems on. I know it's unhealthy for the person, but now they want me to believe that fat people are bad for the environment?
And I agree with Dance. When they get bored with smoker, watch out.
(I finally posted about that bachelorette party)
I don't see myself as overweight, but I'm still ashamed by my carbon footprint and how much trash I produce. It's so tempting to ignore these kinds of facts, but that's what gets us into the mess in the first place.
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