The Energy Glut
The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World
by Ian Roberts
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appears in About United Kingdom.
Worldwide, over a billion Adult,s are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues as manifestations of the ...
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