Overweight people are worse for the climate
According to a team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, their research found that, in no uncertain terms, obesity is contributing to global warming. Leave it to those UK scientists to state the plain ugly facts of global warming without any attempt to sugar coat them. Obese people and people who are on their way to obesity eat more, walk less, and burn more fuel in transportation -- thus greatly increasing their ecological footprint.According to researchers, obese people are less likely to walk, relying mostly on cars, but the biggest contributing factor is their increased caloric intake. Obese people require 18% more calories to perform daily activities than someone with a normal body mass. What makes this news more disturbing is the fact that obesity is skyrocketing worldwide. Currently, the WHO estimates that 400 million people are obese, but by 2015, the number will rise to 700 million. Ouch. Since about 20% of greenhouse gases come from agriculture -- the world's weight problem could become a big fat food supply disaster.
It's Energy Independence Day! 
Green Your 4th of July Celebration
The Importance of Pollination - It's Not Just Bee Sex
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-27-2008 @ 1:00PM
Fred Fredrickson said...
Global warming is apparantly going to be the pretext used to determine how everyone is "allowed" to live their lives. No SUV's, change your light bulbs, don't use your air conditioner, blah blah blah. Now this. Global warming is certainly going to be the death of something - the American way. Let's just hand over all aspects of our lives to government control and be good sheeples to "save the environement." Bad Americans! Tell you environmentalists something, you want to see an environmental disaster, go to a third world country were people live next to open sewers and drink contaminated water. There might not be a "carbon footprint" but I certainly understand their need to have a cleaner environment.
Reply