"The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes."

-- Jonathon Porritt

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“I am whatever you make me, nothing more.”
“I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.”
“No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.”
“...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.”
“It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.”
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”
“For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.”
“Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.”

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