I was checking out what was on Google News page and I saw this article under Health
Obesity as a cause of global warming?
Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2008
That pesky obesity thing. First it forced Disneyland to increase the sizes of its theme-park costumes, and hospitals to buy larger hoists and beds. Now, in a letter published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass — and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. “Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,” write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
As I was reading the article, I thought how stupid it was to blame global warming on obese people. How can people really believe that the amount of food that an obese person consumes are causing the consumption of large quantities of fuel, which has a direct environmental impact. So all of those countries that have starving people live is a perfect world because they don’t consume as much food?
I’m not saying there aren’t any problems with being obese. But to blame a group of people for global warming so outrageous.
There other factors that contribute to global warming. Here is a list of what causes global warming is from the website: EcoBridge,org
- Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants
- Carbon Dioxide Emitted from Cars
- Carbon Dioxide from Airplanes
- Carbon Dioxide from Buildings
- Methane
- Water Vapor in the Atmosphere Increasing
- Nitrous oxide
- Deforestation
- City Gridlock
That list doesn’t include all the diapers going into landfills and people not recycling.
I say if the world can solve all of the problems above, then they can start blaming obese people for global warming.
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