Do fat people pose threat to the environment?

Whether the research findings are true or not, I do nto think fat people pose any greater threat than most other people. Some people are very ignorent and pose a greater threat to our planet.I don't think the amount of CO2 that people exhale could make such a large impact. I think the amount of waste people just thow around has a fat greater impact. I think the biggest impact is on our water. Water polution is of greater concern than global warming, in my opinion. Global warming is a serious thing but contaminated water is absolute useless for anything. Fat people can loose weight, contaminated water is wasted. Maybe this research just want to encourage obese people to live a healthier life style Blessings

i dont believe that!! i for one am slim, however i have friends and a close cousin that are overweight how does that cause a threat to the environment!!!! that's crap!!! don't Believe it and lets say that's true than they need to be specific... obese? how obese do you have to be for that to happen? that person most be a extremely gigantic!! (and i mean extremely)for you to breath in and it takes that much effect, seriously!!

I don't know if it is true or not but does it matter? What are we going to do about it if it were. Eliminate obese people? What's the point in even doing such a study anyway....so people have even more tools to discriminate others? Interesting study but it'd be good if they'd put the $ and time into researching things that could get rid of diseases and really help lives.

I kind of do believe it. However, I also believe they pose a threat more so because of the waste and garbage they tend to throw away. The fact that the most obsese someone is the less they work makes me sick. I am average size and eat wait I'm suppose to and recycle what I can. Waste as little as possible and walk just about everywhere. Obsese people seem to drive more, eat out at fast food places (which produce a lot of excess garbage) and they tend to drink more soda and processed drinks rather then walking to the sink and filling a glass or just making a large pitcher of tea.

Yeh could possible be true. I have personally never thought of it but it seems to make good sense. They are destroying the environment all in aspects. Be it driving more, eating more which leads to waste, consume more medicines. No doubt this is only a tiny percentage of all problems, but still has an impact. Iam not saying that fat people are the ones destroying the environment. These are so many other thing that pose a threat such as cutting trees, fossil fuels etc. Usually its the skinny people making decisions that threaten the planet.

I think it's unfair to the fats if the researchers only judge them. Perhaps in modern world there's alot of people never see the forest. There's also alot of big and giant trees on the forest. Those trees absorbing much CO2 on the photosynthesis progress. But since people cut many trees, the green become rare in this world. It's not true to say the fat people exhale more CO2 because humans have averagely 5 litres of lungs volume. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.

That is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard, go through McDonald's see how may fat people you see in there. And as far as driving, don't see many kids walking any more, their parents all have bought them cars or they drive the family car. That may lead to them being overweight. Seems to me that life is looking to throw the blame on someone and obese people are the ones getting it. I see to many shinny people doing just what you say to believe that only obese people contribute to a bad envirement. Watch the teenagers throw the crap out the car windowns rather than put it in a trash can. So skinny people with breathing problems also I guess cause an increase in Green House effects, is it just people that breath heavily or just fat people. don't make fun, you never know when that fat person could be you in the future.