A few years ago I heard two scientist colleagues discussing the fact that when a person loses weight the mass actually exits the body as carbon dioxide. To go along with that, I live in the modern world where our combination of diet and lifestyle has created a prevalence of obesity. And the current state of public affairs has me not necessarily convinced of the imminence of the collapse of complex society but at least not surprised if it happened over the course of an upcoming weekend.
To bring it all together I walked past a moderately overweight person on my walk to work this morning. (That's not a subtle boast that I walk to work--I was walking from the parking garage to the building and it often is the worst part of my commute.)
Then my brain went like this: "When society collapses this person and millions of others will be dumped out of the modern obesity-producing lifestyle, resulting in widespread weight loss which will release a massive carbon sink thereby exacerbating climate change."
I think climate activists would find a lot more sympathy among climate-change skeptics if they presented their plan as an all-dessert diet. I know I'd become a freaking eco-terrorist, bombing vegetable processing facilities like nobody's business. Anything for Mother Earth.
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