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The new film Wall-E gets it right
The link between obesity and the environment |
Maywa Montenegro |
11 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Slate's Dan Engber has attempted to take down Wall-E in classic Green Room style with a piece slamming the film's connection between obesity and environmental destruction. Engber's critique is flawed in so many ways that it's hard to know where to begin ... For instance, he doesn't seem to believe that obesity really has much to do with being too sedentary or eating too much. To support this, he cites research saying that 80 percent of the variation in body weight ... |
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