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> When you are actually losing weight the way that mass leaves your body is as CO₂ Yes, but it happens only once. When you maintain high body mass you consume
by citrin_ru 5y ago
> When you are actually losing weight the way that mass leaves your body is as CO₂
Yes, but it happens only once. When you maintain high body mass you consume more food and release more CO₂ every day (compare to a similar person with lower mass). Though physical activity likely affects human CO₂ more than body mass.
- tzs 5y ago> Yes, but it happens only once ...which is why I specified it would require quite improbable circumstances. We'd need to be in a situation where we are extremely close to a tipping point, but we are shutting down or reducing enough CO₂ sources that we are just going to miss crossing it and back away from it, and then a massive number of people decide to lose weight and the little temporary bump in CO₂ emission pushes us over.