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Obesity contributes to global warming, or so says a study out of London. Researchers found that more fuel is required to transport obese people and the food they eat. The problem is that a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions stem from agriculture and cars. As the world population continues to swell, literally, the problem will only worsen. At least 400 million adults worldwide are obese. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese. [article] [more on obesity]
Obesity contributes to global warming
Posted by: vmartir
Date: Fri, 2008-05-16 14:31
Date: Fri, 2008-05-16 14:31
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food and global warming
i read that producing meat requires a lot of energy. so being vegetarian isn;t just good for you but good and good for the animals, it is good for the planet!
Yes come what may
What's even more frightening is the billions of pounds of food that's discarded by this country. It's extremely sad when you consider all the people that go hungry everyday.
Global warming is not a scam
There's way to much proof to prove the reality of it. It's far beyond the natural cycles of the earth. Whatever the case, I see how overeating can contribute to the causes of global warming but the biggest culprits are being ignored - the oil magnates, pollution, etc.
wow
thats a lot of food being consumed that could go to starving people. I am not overweight, but even my eating habits need to be fixed. People should stay healthy regardless of whether it harms the environment or not.
global warming is a scam
just to get us to contribute to political parties more. humans can't cause this much damage, because the earth repairs itself. the glaciers that melted have actually refrozen because of the hard winter. the earth goes through a cycle of extreme hotness and then extreme cold, and has for thousands of years.
we also need to eat healthier.
it dosent matter shortly
it dosent matter shortly there will be a food shortage anywaise