Both, according to Globesity:
A Planet Out of Control?, a book by four public-health researchers who
show how climate change and obesity draw from a shared web of roots. Both
problems worsen as car culture spreads, desk jobs replace manual jobs, and
carbon-intensive foods (including
meat) become available to more and more eaters, according to the book, published
first in French and this spring in English.
The two issues spread
across the planet in similar ways. Those paying attention to climate change
know the planet can’t afford for the developing world to emit carbon dioxide at the same
levels as the industrialized world. Public-health workers, too, foresee
enormous trouble if developing countries adopt the worst dietary and lifestyle habits of rich
countries. That shift is well underway,
there are more obese people in developing, poor countries than
there are in developed westernized countries.
now higher in Germany, Finland, and the Czech Republic than
in the U.S
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