Fat People Cause Global Warming: Fat Isn’t Very Green28 lbs LOSTso farApril 18, 2008 by Israel Lagares | 10 comments
Lately, we have noticed an increasing push for “going green.” We have seen changes in everything from transportation to food preparation to the internet. This got me thinking about how I could make my life greener. My immediate realization was that I was a walking global warming vessel. I’m fat. Being fat can’t be very green. Can it? We need to reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases and learn how to use energy more efficiently.
Think about it. I’m overweight and require an above average usage of certain environmentally non-friendly things. Like what, you ask? Well, how about showering…? Being fat makes me take longer in the shower, using up more water than I should be using. So I waste water even though I make a conscious effort to “speed up” my showers. Another waste is toilet usage. I take, um, pretty big dumps and need more than one flush. I also use a lot of wipes to clean up. Don’t even get me started on my frequent urination due to all the water and green tea I consume. That equals quite a large amount of flushing per day.
Another way that being fat, or unhealthy, isn’t green is all the crap that gets consumed. I try to be as healthy as possible, but I do have my weaknesses. There are folks that eat out day after day after day. What do you think this does to the environment? That extra bag that was used to pack those 3 double cheeseburgers doesn’t just evaporate into thin air ya know. And the process of creating those burger wrappers doesn’t help either, factories and plants are needed for the creation of all of this.
How else can being fat not be very green? Clothes! Have you seen the amount of fabric needed to create some of the clothes that overweight people wear? I know you have. It’s all over television with the “I lost X amount of pounds” commercials. Think of what it takes to make that 5XL t-shirt. Think. What about all the washing that is needed for those large clothes? The water, the detergent, the softener, the dryer time…talk about endless loads of clothes.
If you’re fat you’re probably a notorious waster of electricity and gas too. It can be either watching too much television, having the air conditioning on a lot, or driving to that nearest fast food joint to pick up a “snack.” The heavier you are the more gas your car needs to carry you around. Fat = heavy = more gas needed. It’s simple math.
I’m not saying that being fat is causing global warming (need some research and scientific proof for this), but I can assure you that being fat isn’t very environmentally friendly.
Update: Looks like someone else feels the same way about global warming and fat people.
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Great post, but “T.M.I.” with the big dumps. I was eating lunch.
My bad, just speaking the truth and keeping it real my friend. LOL.
I don’t think your generalizations about fat people are true at all. I happen to be fat, and have been so for at least 30 of my 54 years of life. I don’t eat at fast food places (who the hell can afford that all the time?), my showers last about 5 minutes, and I only need to flush the toilet once (if I have to use wipes, I don’t need to use t.p.). I drive a minivan that gets 20 mpg city and 25 mpg highway (and it’s 11 years old, with 162,000 miles on it), and that’s the mileage it gets no matter if my fat ass is driving it or my son’s thinner one is driving it. I do 3 loads of laundry a week for 2 adults, so my huge clothes aren’t an environmental problem either (and not in the making of them either since I don’t go out and buy new outfits every month, I’m lucky if I can manage a whole new wardrobe every 3 or 4 years). You may not be a very “green” fat person, but YOU are the only fat person for whom you can speak. You can’t speak for the “green-ness” of any other fat person out there because you don’t a clue how they live their lives. But go ahead and keep on perpetuating the stereotype that all fat people are gluttonous, wasteful pigs. After all, we’re fat, we don’t deserve any basic human respect at all.
“After all, we’re fat, we don’t deserve any basic human respect at all.” Vesta, I’m fat too. I never said we didn’t deserve respect. Seems like you have some animosity buried inside that fat of yours. Let it out! LET IT OUT!
LOL @ vesta44. That has been the funniest comment I have ever read. Thanks for brightening up my day :).
You do THREE loads of laundry a week for TWO people? That seems like an awful lot to me.
I have managed to bring that down considerably.
While I don’t agree that fat people cause global warming, you make some very good points about the other things. But this is true of individuals no matter what their size is. Enviornmental waste does not know size, but it makes sense to me about the extra fabric use as well as the additional water usage.
Fat people are very lazy and also not energetic. But this doesn’t mean that they are the cause for global warming. There’s no size or type of environment but the extra thing are wasted like the additional water usage and the fabrics.
Haha this is really funny article. The title and the picture are AMAZING!