Make Room on the Planet!

Something Nice!

I have heard the phrase that many Americans are “morbidly obese” and even though healthcare costs continue to rise, people are not changing their eating habits. Thousands of people are falling ill to diabetes, high blood pressure, and any number of related heart problems that are deceases attributed directly to being overweight. Fast food businesses continue to show huge profits, why is that? Having time on my hands to ponder worldly problems like this, I believe I have a solution for making more room on the planet. My idea is to require every person that falls into the “morbidly obese” category to lose enough weight (not original I know) and to bring their body fat index down to a medical industry recognizable and healthy level. This in turn will reduce the diameter of most humans affecting the space occupied by every person. In turn we all get a little more elbow room you might say.   There are many benefits for being a healthier, smaller, or more narrow (physically I mean) person whichever description is politically correct. Consider other problems like the short list below that can be solved too:

• Eating less means less trash and garbage in landfills (Environmentalist happier)
• Less water is used when the body is smaller/thinner (Water conservationist happier)
• Comfortable seating/standing for all on public transportation (Traveling public happier)
• Airlines can compress seating space (like they haven’t already) (Airline industry happier)
• Lower fuel costs due to lower transported weight (Shipping costs lower, car owners happier too)
• Fewer sheep have to be sheared for the garment industry (the sheep will be warmer)
• Most people will be able to fit in smart cars (Global warming alarmist happier)
• Fewer swayback horses (Animal rights advocates and PETA people happier)
• Fewer  back injuries (Everyone happier, pharmaceutical firms unhappy)
• More cops that can catch the criminals (Taxpayers happier)
• Fewer broken office chairs (Facility’s asset management happier)
• More food for the rest of us. (starving people fed)
• Etc.

The result is harmony in the World!