The Energy Glut: The planet is getting hotter and its population is getting fatter and fossil
fuel energy use is the principal cause of both. This is the claim
that Phil Edwards and I make in our new book ‘The Energy Glut’
that will be launched in London next week (6pm Wednesday 3rd
November,LSHTM, Keppel Street, London). We will call on
climate change negotiators at next month’s climate talks in
Cancun Mexico to look around them and see what fossil fuel energy
use is doing to Mexicans’ waistlines and to their health.
Car use
has decimated physical activity in Mexico.
Road death is the second leading cause of healthy life years
lost; the capital is one of the most polluted cities in the world
where a fifth of commuters spend over two hours each day in
gridlock, and then with physical activity at an all time low, the
food and beverage industry have pounced on Mexicans like a pack
of dogs – perhaps not surprising in a country that elected a Coca
Cola boss to lead them as President.
The new book
adds evidence to the claim that
reducing fossil fuel energy use is good for the planet and good
for health. The decarbonisation of
towns and cities could end the global obesity epidemic and
greatly improve health and well-being – people could enjoy moving
rather than being moved and oil wars could become a thing of the
past.
All proceeds from the book go to an organization of victims of road traffic crashes.
Please consider reading it!
Ian Roberts
Professor of Public Health
University of London
Links:
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4361
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Energy-Glut-Politics-Fatness-Overheating/dp/1848135181
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