Carbon neutral and CO2 emissions, etc

bennty
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:54:51 +0000

You’re talking to a former aerobics instructor who’s also worked with municipalities to aid in bringing better nutrition to school meal programs. Most of my food-related work now is related less to obesity than it is to helping people find palatable ways of reducing meat consumption, since meat’s so enormously resource-intensive. As people move to plants, especially once they get over what I call the “cheese bump” (where they drown everything in cheese), they generally wind up eating fewer calories anyway. Partly because they start cooking and learning about food.

Incidentally, I find that people who are super into “get people to exercise” tend not to have a whole lot of experience outside young, fairly fit and well-off populations. Avoiding sedentariness is key, but you can bake that in simply by living in more densely-populated places, using the car less, and doing more walking and carrying. (Good study done recently with, iirc, a collaborative NSF/city project investigating citybike use: unsurprisingly, one finding was that uptake was low among older populations, which is a thing I’ve seldom heard planners talk about when it comes to those programs. They’re thinking about young and middle-aged adults, and not so much about getting-around needs and patterns of elderly. (Which I keep forgetting I will be very soon!) Those conversations tend to center around disability and poverty, which, you know, is a thing that could change.)