awaiting the backlash
Remember I told you years ago about going to the Farmers’ Market to pick up some juicy-yummy ‘maters? …and maybe a giant cookie? BTNIN.
This little skinny old vegan fella [you can tell from the grey skin and sunken eyes], approached me waving his little stick arms. Yanno the type: tiny littla fella with baggy big-pocket bermuda shorts, “renewable cotton” peasant shirt, big straw [ladies' gardening] hat, usually found trotting obediently behind the Dried-Up Earth Mother™ carrying her “re-usable bags.”
Well he commenced to hollering at me in his high, grating little voice about my “Giant SUV of Doom” and how dare I drive it to such a sacred place as a Farmers’ Market??!??
I advised him to take a science class and continued with my day. But, as I could see he was actually frightened of the Coming Doooom he truly believed would ensue as a direct result of my SUV trip to the Farmers’ Market, it reminded me that he was just the vanguard of the True Believers.
Here’s more opportunity for the True Believers:
Research was conducted based on the theory that the body mass of a population should be factored into the amount of energy it burns, in addition to the number of people residing in a certain region.
…A recent study conducted by scientists in London found that the obese persons of the world are playing an increasingly large role in the rate at which the planet’s finite resources are used.
OMGwe’reallgonnaDIE *runz in circles* And it’s all your fault, you FattyFatFat Resource User!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes — using up all those “finite” resources like potatoes…
“If all countries had the [body mass index] distribution of the USA, the increase in human biomass of 58 million [metric tons] would be equivalent in mass to an extra 935 million people of average body mass, and have energy requirements equivalent to that of 473 million adults,” the research dictated.[hm... interesting use of that word]
So the equivalent body mass of 935 extra humans would use only about half the energy requirements? I’m confused.
“Although the concept of biomass is rarely applied to the human species, the ecological implications of increasing body mass are significant and ought to be taken into account when evaluating future trends and planning for future resource challenges,” the study found. ”Tackling population fatness may be critical to world food security and ecological sustainability.”
These ‘closed system’ folks are gonna come out of their sustainably-grown tire-tread sandals over this.
Unfortunately, their fear is real. And very motivating. And once these ignoratti are convinced of the Unsustainability view of the world and the likely demise of All Life On Earth, the Moral Superiority of their “argument” kicks in and sets the hook. No actual science can penetrate a closed mind. So they will be with us forever. [see the lack of response to the Global Worms proof of forgery] Nagging the SUV driver, the oil producer, the actual conservationist… And now the chubbychubchubbers…..
Ignorance: it’s unsustainable.
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The irony is that living in their imaginary little world can only be done under the umbrella of the real world they despise.
Wake me up when they start burning heretics and infidels.
And they will.
“OMG!!!!!! What if all the FattyFatFatties decide to jump all at once?!?? ”
Guam will capsize.
I wonder if this applies.
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What was that bit in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe” about the planet that had mass-loss problems due to tourism, resulting in a law about massing the same on arrival and departure? Any difference to be cut off?
“It is therefore vitally important to get a receipt every time you go to the bathroom.”
I’m a little above my ideal weight, and drive a SUV. I’m a leading source of “Planet destruction” I’m sorry.
In the growing season there are lots of places where one can buy fresh vegetables and fruits/nuts along many roadsides. Why not teach the assholes a little about Adam Smith and do your buying elsewhere? [...I say *teach* just to be polite. Cretins never get taught, nor do they learn from a fist in their face, + I bruise my knuckles....]
Ignorance: it’s unsustainable
Yeah, and chronic too.
By golly, when are we, the sane and rational, gonna force these idiot evangelists to actually live in the world they want and proselytize without the umbrella (hat tip: DougM) we provide?
Yannow, a Rainbow Six action?
Okay, I’ll concede that fat people use more soap. Other than that, these people need to lighten up.
dick (7)
I nominate the answer to any enviroweenie’s stupid whine to be,
“Rainbow Six, mate.”
rickn8or (8)
Yeah, but we use it only a third as often, so …
(What? No, I was not gonna say, “It’s a wash;” but that’s actually waay better.)
Well as the populations become heavier they stay home more rather than visiting the forests and other rural/wilderness areas, and since the un types want to push everyone to the cities, I see the possibility that the planet will be placed out of balance and topple to a pole shift with massive climate change, increased volcanic activity, sea level slosh, dogs and cats living together, the oakland raiders move to olympia.
Or we just make a habit of treating them to much deserved ridicule.
“Rainbow Six, mate.”
Doug, that’s fantastic.
The methane emissions will get us all, long before anything else.
Yeah, but fat people die earlier, so their consumption cycle is shorter. Furthermore, people who are morbidly obese are less mobile and don’t travel as much, so there’s that. It’s self-limiting, really.
Me, I’m a chubby-chub-chub and I SO want to join all the others in jumping and tipping the earth off its axis. ;)
If all the people in developed countries stopped using power tools and such their calorie requirements would double–causing a food shortage and rising costs of survival. If you don’t drive but walk to the market, and you have to buy more food because you’re burning calories like a peasant laborer, you won’t have to buy gas but you’ll be making it harder on the 3d world.
There’s important information missing from this article. Exactly how many dessicated vegans am I worth?