Fat Old World

THE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GAINING WEIGHT. seven billion folks, and two hundred and eighty seven tons o folk- flesh. much of the weight gain is of course in the good ole U S of A, in which the average citizen has risen from about one hundred forty pounds to about one hundred seventy.

if you get out much, you notice that many, if not most americans are considerably overweight.  people like to move around a lot, going places, which takes a lot more energy, gasoline, jet fuel, calories, with the added bulk.

if the seven billion people were to eat what they need, instead of what they want, we could feed an extra one billion people, or, at least feed one billion of the people who currently don't get enough to eat.

food, like all other resources, is distributed extremely unequally among our species. america has six per cent of the world's population, but consumes one fourth of the world's resources, and as much as twenty per cent of the world's calories.

in a more perfect world, the american people would eat less, send the left overs to africa, slim down, and get more exercise.

all of the wealthy nations, such as kuwait, consume disproportionate resources, including food.

then too, folks are living longer, the world is getting old, and within the next couple of decades there will not be enough young people to support the planet's elderly. perhaps the fattening of the human species is the way in which we are limiting the increase in life span, correcting the surplus of elderly retired non working.

the two oldest pr capita countries in the world are japan and germany, two of the world's wealthiest. if we start finding ways of keeping people alive longer though fat they be, we shall live in a world in which economic productivity comes to a standstill, and we all become each other's nursemaids. the sweeping growth of machinary encourages this.

then, the system will collapse, and we will be back where we started; living short, brutish lives of material want and struggle.

not with a bang, but a whimper..

Bb

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