From the Guardian: How climates impact on land threaten - and how to fix it - excerpt: And to my mind the way we eat in a helter-skelter fashion not only affects the Climate Change problem but also our lifespan. Don't think so? See here: JAPAN'S HIGH LIFE EXPECTANCY LINKED TO DIET, STUDY FINDS - excerpt: Meaning what? This: Also, from here: These American Meat Products Are Banned Abroad - excerpt: Your lifespan is determined by your style-of-living (including eating habits) much more than you might think ...
Everything impacts lifespan, including diet. Demographics, Genetics, Environment, Luck....heII even what and if you drive. Eating and Producing meat certainly has an effect, but so does almost everything else.
Quite right. But what puts "all" into focus are the comparative percentage. As shown here: And of the above, what are the main culprits?:
Yes, but that stats show that obesity is - by far - the main killer. And this is a highly recent statistical predominance? It has only just started with bad-food eateries in a country where food had become a crucial part of its culture. It was refined, wholesome and generally good. And I remember walking down the Champ Elysees in the 1980s to be startled by - of all thing! - the first McDonalds in France underground and hiding in a gallery. The French guy who founded that outlet refused to observe the McDonald's rules-of-cleanliness and McDonalds (after a long court-case) divested the company of him. All his outlets then became named differently and he finally sold them later for millions ... !
I fully agree there is a "HUGE" (pun intended) problem with food, but the Climate change angle seems a bit strange. There just seem to be more realistic and important ways to focus attention.
I cannot see the climate-change issue as a part of the obesity-problem. They are both distinctly different, but the consequences of both are equally menacing to mankind. However, you are asking a good question. Which is worse? And that remains a big question. And still, I sense that climate-change (if it continues to worsen as it has) will have a more deleterious effect on life-as-we-know-it and on a far, far larger scale than obesity ....
With the Internet, we are being bombarded by very strange human-behaviour simultaneously from a great many quarters on earth regarding climate change. Especially now in mid-summer with heat-waves afflicting peoples around the continent. Before we would have likely never paid attention, because that was the job of news-outlets. I am not sure the Internet is all-that-expert in discerning what is good and what is bad news, or how much in either instance. But I do know this: When a young Swedish girl-ecologist (Greta Thunberg, 16 years old) was invited into the French parliament and proffered her own plea (in proper English) for more ecological-sanity, she made a very profound impact nationally. She is now off to the US to make that same plea and refuses to take an airplane - so she managed to find herself a sailboat to get across the Atlantic ... !
