Fat People Cause Global Warming
No cruel fat jokes please. It’s not a methane issue, not directly, anyway,* and has nothing to do with heat generation. It’s just that eating too much forces more environmentally destructive food production. Important advance in scientific understanding of climate change via UK Sun.
And you know, I think I’d pay to see Al Gore deliver an empassioned denunciation of obesity.
“Y’all gotta lose weight. For the planet. The science indicates that fat people are going to cause massive hurricanes and swamp Miami!”
Something like that. Could be dangerous in some quarters. Here’s what the guy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine actually said, via the Sun. Pretty hurtful anti-fattism:
“Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler.”
Thanks, pal. That’s really going to help with the self-esteem issues. Tell some struggling dieter that, they’re headed straight for the CO2-positive Haagen Dazs.
Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a tonne more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.
It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.
The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.
Not exactly a new theory. You’ll recall the University of Surrey’s Food Climate Research Network wanted to you cut down on meat and booze. Yeah, sure, that’s going to happen. I was thinking about eating less … due to, you know … but now I’m thinking I should eat more, as well as getting that turbo-charged V8. As a statement about how concerned I am about global warming. Getting fat is the most ponderous form of dissent against economically destructive Obama green policies, and has the added benefit of fueling the food production and retail sectors.
This news, along with scientific evidence and logic, could be another nail in the warmal coffin. Weight issues are bad enough without people being told it’s their own big fat fault.
* You recall that Bush admin cow tax proposal.
Topics: warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
5 Responses to “Fat People Cause Global Warming”
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April 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm
What utter bullpucky. You might as well say black people contribute more to global warming because they absorb more sunlight, instead of reflecting it back like white people.
Who the hell opened the gates of the asylum?
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:42 am
“The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things–war and hunger and date rape–liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. . . . It´s a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don´t have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.” — P.J. O’Rourke
Which explains why they can’t comprehend that someone would perceive them to be bigots.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Nickydog tells me that she likes the word “warmalist” and she congratulates you.
http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php?s=&showtopic=14191&view=findpost&p=205756
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I’m fat, and I’m going to eat even more and single-handedly destroy the world via global warming unless everyone on the planet sends me 50 bucks!
Cash only, please.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
All you global warming alarmist should kill yourselves to save the planet. I think it would the noble thing to do.