Global climatic change and obesity are linked, revealed more than 350 Australian health scientists who signed a letter and sent it to the Medical Journal of Australia. In it, they have requested politicians as well as people to ponder over the link between these two health threats.

Co-signatory Adjunct Professor Garry Egger, a Professor of Lifestyle Medicine at Southern Cross University, shares that these two threats are interconnected and this link has been known to the health professionals since long.

Egger, while quoting the letter, explained that since the dawn of industrialization health gains have been made. Due to excessive market-driven consumerism and energy-subsidized exertion-free living, health risks have emerged. As far as climatic change is concerned, population growth is responsible.

With climatic change, we face the shortage of luxury of time and the risks are much higher. The health scientists believe that population is a key driver of energy use, greenhouse pollution and consequently ill health.

A sustainable economic system and a stable population size should be sought which will ensure prosperity without putting in danger either health or environment.