On 2008-05-17 11:58, Cliffg37 wrote:
Hey, While I am certainly overweight, I am also a vegetarian! How does that fit into this scenario?

On 2008-05-17 10:57, irossall wrote:
I content that skinny health addicts ie: Jogger's, Cyclist's and the million's who participate in Athletic's add just as much "Greenhouse Gas" as the obese, due to the extra Carbon Dioxide they emit due to heavy breathing caused from the extra activity.

On 2008-05-25 15:02, Justin Style wrote:

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On 2008-05-17 10:57, irossall wrote:
I content that skinny health addicts ie: Jogger's, Cyclist's and the million's who participate in Athletic's add just as much "Greenhouse Gas" as the obese, due to the extra Carbon Dioxide they emit due to heavy breathing caused from the extra activity.

Isn't Carbon Dioxide susposed to be a Good thing?

On 2008-05-25 15:02, Justin Style wrote:

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On 2008-05-17 10:57, irossall wrote:
I content that skinny health addicts ie: Jogger's, Cyclist's and the million's who participate in Athletic's add just as much "Greenhouse Gas" as the obese, due to the extra Carbon Dioxide they emit due to heavy breathing caused from the extra activity.

Isn't Carbon Dioxide susposed to be a Good thing?

On 2008-05-16 20:35, daffydoug wrote:
The day will soon come when we shall be roused from our beds, not by the ringing of the alarm clock, but by the rising sea levels slapping us on our slumbering faces. That is how serious global warming is. What makes it worse is that we shall all be so morbidly obese by then we won't be able to rise from our beds to save ourselves.

There is absolutely, positively no question whatsoever that we are in the midst of a climate change crisis. It is also categorically and undeniably beyond any dispute that it is man-made. Maybe.

It is also beyond any sensible argument that the western world is suffering from an obesity epidemic owing to all the junk food people consume. Listen closely the next time somebody takes their seat. Hear that slightly pleasant squelching sound? That's because the average western bottom is now so full of saturated fat and trans-fatty acid that people audibly slosh when they walk.

Up until now the obesity crisis and the global warming crisis have been regarded as two separate crises. However, irrefutable scientific evidence has recently emerged showing that the two crises are, in fact, inextricably linked. The devastating fallout from this shattering revelation is clear and unavoidable - we shall all have to get our tongues around the correct pronunciation of the word "crises".

The cycle begins with the excessive ingestion of fast foods such as pies, hamburgers, kebabs, chips, potato cakes, maybe a piece of fl ake, some dim sims and, sure, a couple of schnitzels and throw in a spring roll, why not? And salt on that please.

The person consumes the food and gets bigger. This has several major deleterious consequences for the environment, not the least of which will now be having to also learn how to pronounce "deleterious" properly as the "crises" worsen. Their bloated bodies accelerate the emission of gases during digestion. This, in turn, contributes to the greenhouse effect. And because it is too much effort to walk, their increased use of cars and buses and taxies to get from one fast food franchise to the next adds to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The chief repercussion of the greenhouse effect is bad weather, which means more hurricanes, which means more rain, which means more grass, which is what cows like to eat.

This results in the well-documented growth of both the size and population of cows, which leads to lower beef prices, which allows the manufacturers of fast food to buy more cattle to make more hamburgers, which naturally brings the price down, which allows people to buy more hamburgers and thus eat more hamburgers, and thus produce more greenhouses gases, and so on and so forth