Obesity contributes to global warming: study •
GENEVA (Reuters) - Obese and overweight people require more fuel to
transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the
population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.
This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school's
researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in the journal Lancet on
Friday.
"We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility," Edwards
said in a telephone interview. "Obesity is a key part of the big picture."
At least 400 million adults worldwide are obese. The World Health
Organization (WHO) projects by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight
and more than 700 million will be obese.
In their model, the researchers pegged 40 percent of the global population
as obese with a body mass index of near 30. Many nations are fast
approaching or have surpassed this level, Edwards said.
BMI is a calculation of height to weight, and the normal range is usually
considered to be 18 to 25, with more than 25 considered overweight and
above 30 obese.
The researchers found that obese people require 1,680 daily calories to
sustain normal energy and another 1,280 calories to maintain daily
activities, 18 percent more than someone with a stable BMI.
Because thinner people eat less and are more likely to walk than rely on
cars, a slimmer population would lower demand for fuel for transportation
and for agriculture, Edwards said.
This is also important because 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions stem
from agriculture, he added.
The next step is quantifying how much a heavier population is contributing
he added.
"Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand
for, and thus the price of, food," Edwards and Roberts wrote.
Comment: So many fatsos in amerikka (and Oz ,me too )consuming more than their share of the worlds natural recources while complaining of the threats posed by population problems IN THE THIRD WORLD that might interfere their amerikkkan right to continuing the american consumerist lifesyle.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/164674
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Counterproductive to dealing with the REAL problem.
Yes of course, obsesity CONTRIBUTES to the problem. But this is just like when they discover a school budget shortfall of 20% they start shouting about "record keeping deficiencies" and whether the paraprofessional's time sheets are entirely acurate. In other words, piss in the ocean sort of stuff when the real problem is a house size hole in the side of the ship.
It all CONTRIBUTES, but before looking for little bits here and there which could be shaved off the total decide what scale of problem we face. And decide if you are willing to face the problem or are blinded by some ideology which tells you in advance that there can't be a problem, must be somebody's fault, fix that and all MUST be well.
START BACKWARDS --- don't look at our current situation and ask what could be shaved. FIRST analyze what the total SUSTAINABLE production of the planet might be under ideal conditions. SECOND decide on what the minimum acceptable standard of consumption per human might be.
NOW DIVIDE -- how many humans is that? If you can show me figure that is greater than or at least comparable to 6 billion I will listen to you when you discuss "people getting more than their fair share" or "it's the fault of capitalism" or whatever. But if you can only show me a figure of say 4 billion or 2 billion or even less then sorry, our problem is NOT about "fair sharing" (you already have the maximum population assuming that the fair sharing issue HAS been solved).
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friken viva!
thx for the smarter then average comment :)
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The above was posted because i thought it was a bit of fun.but also to ilustrate that solving problems of ecological destruction and imbalances could not be seperated from problems of our own wastefull exploitative imperialist consumerist lifestyles that are a product of capitalism
it is defending these lifestyles of the fat minority and the economics that serve that ,that hold back developement in the third world and solving the main human living environment and ecological problems.
You are right this is only part of the problem that cannot be seperated from the whole.
Economics
* Note on ecology, inequality, and the labor aristocracy thesis, and response to Moran on embodied Ecological Footprints and trade
* * Correction to "Note on ecology, inequality, and the labor aristocracy thesis, and response to Moran on embodied Ecological Footprints and trade," and additional comments
* Draft: Examining the export of capital and parasitism today.
http://miws.ws/theory/economics/index.html
Document Archive > Economics and Political Economy
"Unequal Exchange Revisited" [http://sunspot.miws.ws/uer/uer.pdf], paper by Arghiri Emmanuel, 1975 August (PDF, 4.1 MB, 90 pages, searchable) [introduction for the "What's New?" page] [excerpt on amerikan workers as exploiters].
Arghiri Emmanuel excerpt on ecological consumption and international solidarity .
http://miws.ws/archive/economics/index.html
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So ,work backwards , so then we can get away from the current problems to imagine An ideal green future balanced world.
Where we assume the problems have already been solved theoretically , Under “ideal conditions” .
But work the costs out under existing current conditions and current levels of science and assuming as you do the capitalist world continues ,because yo do not propose anything to replace it.
Supposedly then we get a sustainable sum .
Will this be equal to the 140,000 saints that can live under jesus rule as prophesised by the jehovahs witneses or some new green scientific figure?
As my mathematics are not so hot and you have clearly already worked this lebenstraum problem out ,as you are not blinded by some ideology , do not hold on us waiting , just tell us your answer.
Unless you give us the secret magic division number result and stop talking to yourself, we shouldn’t listen to you either, according to your logic.
Should we get the green bombs out now or wait till the problems get worse?
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