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    Love that movie!
     
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    Jimmy Kimmel & Fellow Late Night Shows Team Up for a Climate Change Intervention.

     
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    Aging Politicians And Meat Eaters Stand In The Way Of America's Climate Progress.

     
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    A Republican state legislative candidate in Virginia posed an interesting question on Twitter recently.


    "I'm curious, Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water? Just a thought, not a statement," wrote Scott Pio, who is challenging Democratic Del. David Reid in Loudoun County's District 32.

    https://www.rawstory.com/scott-pio-sea-level/
     
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    I assume that his next question would be about what would happen if we removed all the fish from the ocean.
     
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    Fun fact I heard the other day: They estimate that by 2050 the amount of plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish.
     
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    Plastic shark!
     
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    2.8 million dies each year of obesity... if you are 20 pounds overweight according to doctors you are obese.
     
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    Yes. In the US this is largely due to poverty and government subsidies to large corporations.
     
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    Obesity is a huge problem for all of society. Poor or not poor.
    It starts with parent(s) educating and sitting example of the benefits of exercise and not being inactive by being addicted to video games or the net.
    I have two kids with families that may be considered poor but they are active and health conscious for themselves and their kids. It working
     
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    You can't out exercise a bad diet.
    Poverty encourages a bad diet, especially here in the US.
    And especially when you're old and take longer to recover from injuries.

    Education is certainly part of it, but a better education will result in lower poverty rates as well. I'm all for improving the education of our children.
     
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    Actually you can. Calories burned > Calories consumed = weight loss.
     
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    You can't burn more calories regularly than you get from a bad diet.

    Americans don't have the time for that, largely because they have to work so much to avoid poverty or try to climb out of it. And most have to drive everywhere.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-calories-americans-eat-increase-2016-07
     
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    It's especially true for the poor and uneducated. Foods with lots of fat and salt are the cheapest.
     
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    “People vs. Fossil Fuels”: Over 530 Arrested in Historic Indigenous-Led Climate Protests in D.C..

     
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