Comments on: Adventures in Satire, Episode 1: Fat People Are Destroying the World

By: Micah Tillman » Blog Archive » Adventures in Satire, Episode 2: Fundamentalist Christians Run the Media

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:15:07 +0000

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By: Micah Tillman

Micah Tillman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:05 +0000

If you say so.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:06:09 +0000

I was putting it within the context of the single individual.

By: Micah Tillman

Micah Tillman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:27:02 +0000

And you read the explanatory parenthesis directly after the sentence you just quoted, yes?

:-)

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:03:51 +0000

“Fat people usually eat more than skinny people, which means they have a bigger carbon footprint.”

Maybe I am reading too much into this but unless the fat people injested nothing but water, they also took in carbon. And the fat, in part, is made up of that carbon. (Maybe I have just too much of a scientific mind.)

By: Micah Tillman

Micah Tillman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:48:11 +0000

Where did I say that fat people consist of more carbon?

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:45:29 +0000

I’m sorry, but in the context your post says that since fat people consist of more carbon, they are more to blame (however, if they breathe less, they would, in theory, be reducing the CO2 levels in the atmosphere -albeit minuscule).

By: Micah Tillman

Micah Tillman — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:56:40 +0000

I figured the shortening was okay, since it’s called a “carbon footprint” not a “carbon dioxide footprint.”

By: Seamus

Seamus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:53:00 +0000

It is not carbon that is destroying the planet, it is CO2.