Do you think there are parellels between global warming and obesity?

Question

Both are caused by mens unwillingles to control himself, until its to late. Like alcohlism, drug abuse and uncontrolled destruction of the enviroment like clear cutting, burning, paving everything over. Do you feel, we are irresponsible or ignorant or is it all well and sustainable?

Answer 1

You may have a point. But population is the key factor, but always ignored for PC reasons.

Answer 2

All is not well and things are not sustainable at their current levels. Indeed, for many people we've already passed the point of sustainability.

Greed means that we consume far more than we need to - be it fuel, food, manufactured goods etc. The demand for these and other commodities is a constant drain on the planet's natural resources and all are contributors to global warming.

A general reduction in consumption would go a long way to offsetting some of the effects of climate change. However, it's unrealistic to expect a large scale shift in human attitudes towards consumerism and it would be unrealistic to expect anything more than a token reduction in consumption. If people consumed only what they needed there would be global economic meltdown. Think about it - how many shirts have you got for example, how many do you really need. There are an awful lot of things we could do without but very few people are going to resort to a minimalistic lifestyle.

Answer 3

Your writing and vocabulary seem very proficient, but your reasoning is underdeveloped or/and weak. There are issues, challenges, and disabilities that can out do personal, city, state and even National boundaries for very real reasons like cultural mores and values which are dating in the present and can cause more problems than they solve.
For example, prison is a blunt tool that society supposedly controls people with problems that have been long ignored.
For example, one of the problems that mankind keeps making is cutting down our forests for energy needs like heat and power, framing material for houses to build and so on.
However, cutting down forest cause many problems with the forest that are usually permanently damaging the forest like erosion which causes the loss of earth down the streams where the trees are cut.
Erosion is a major problem that can not be handled by just not cutting more trees down around cities. If you want to solve this problem you have to do more than control yourself. You have to start replanting forests to restore natures balance and so on.
You seem to be defining a problem by simply setting up a cause and effect scenario without actual describing the problems but describing a same part of a much larger problem that has no simple solution.
It is kind of like believing that all taxes are bad ideas or that any cut in taxes is a good idea!

Answer 4

Yes there are trees are cut down to make room for farms upon which large amount of cattle are raised in unhealthy conditions sqeezed together. The amount of burgers people eat has the result of using large amounts of water which could be conserved. There is no need to eat so many burgers. The trucks that deliver the meat have an affect. The cars driven to fast food places do as well. The burghers cost little that it is easy to eat many of them.The entire junk food industry contributes to global warming by using trucks to transport products and uses electronic energy to sell on internet and television or other electronic homeowned devices. The magazines on being skinny contribute as well given the amount of trees cut down to supply them as trees are carbon monoxide sinks or are said to be in text books. Sell no how to be skinny magazines and no more burgers problem solved.Not sustainable agree.

Answer 5

No I don't think so people were obese long before such a thing as global warming was around now if you said is there a link between the industrial revolution and global warming I would say
yes

Answer 6

That's a huge (pardon the pun) stretch, linking the two.

The only tie -- it's weak at best -- would be that the general over consumption of goods and services (which is in part pumping CO2 into the air) has not only trashed the environment, but also lead as to be self serving gluttons.

That's a long shot.

Answer 7

Fossil fueled power is not sustainable. Oil will run out in 100 years and coal in 500. Then global warming will stop. And we will be forced to find other energy sources.

We are foolish to not seek other energy sources.

But it would be EQUALLY foolish to just give up oil and coal BEFORE we find those other sources. It would be like withholding milk from a baby too young to eat solid food.

Answer 8

huh? i dont really get it butt yeaaaa global warming is cuz of human stuff.......
but dosnt anyone ever think maybe glabl warming is supposed to hapem? like and a new species will start? like wat happenned to the dinasours?