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Weight of the World: Humanity’s Fatness an Environmental Problem?
Live Science – Humanity is 17 million tons (15 million metric tons) overweight, according to a study that calculates the adult portion of the human race’s collective weight at 316 million tons (287 million metric tons). … “[United Nations] world population projections suggest that by 2050 there could be an additional 2.3 billion people,” they write in research published online Sunday (June 17) in the journal BMC Public Health. “The ecological implications of rising population numbers will be exacerbated by increases in average body mass.” Read article
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