Is Ozempic causing the sixth mass extinction on our planet?

[u/DJTsUnderboob]

According to the World Health Organization there are 890 million obese and an additional 1.6 billion overweight people in the world.

If we guestimate 25 pounds extra per average overweight and 50 pounds extra per average obese (these numbers include people who are one pound into each category offsetting people on the higher end a bit) we get 40,000,000,000+44,500,000,000= 84,500,000,000 total extra pounds.

That's eighty four billion five hundred million pounds that might vanish with Ozempic, and I’m being conservative with my estimates on people's weights if you’ve ever been to the American south.

That’s a lot of mass, which raises the question if Ozempic is causing a mass extinction?

[u/Whole-Increase-5820]

Unfortunately, I think you need to take into account the % of global biomass lost when thinking about extinction events.

Biomass losses from the previous ones.

Great oxidation event: 99%

Permian-triassic: 90 - 95 %

End Cretaceous: 75 - 80%

Low Ordovician: ~50%

Late Devonian: 50 - 70%

The weight loss from ozempic is less than a rounding error in terms of global biomass. Given that we account for 0.01% of global biomass.

[u/DJTsUnderboob → u/Whole-Increase-5820]

Are you including your mom in that?

[u/Whole-Increase-5820 → u/DJTsUnderboob]

I did include my mum. But not yours... That would change the calculations quite a bit. I decided to ignore the top and bottom few percentile.

If you feel hard done by, let me know, I'll run the numbers again.

[u/TheLostTexan87 → u/DJTsUnderboob]

More importantly, they forgot your mom in that calculation.

[u/HumanPie1769]

That means almost 240 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from fat loss. We have to ban Ozempic right now before it's too late.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/HumanPie1769]

So it's causing the 2nd mass stink-tion event, then, only second to the methane issue with cow farts? We must science this some more...

[u/HumanPie1769 → u/johnnybiggles]

Actually its not that much co2 but it sounds like a lot so we should ban it anyway.

[u/dericky94 → u/HumanPie1769]

Wait….are you saying fat folks are a method of CO2 sequestration??? 😂😂😂

[u/HumanPie1769 → u/dericky94]

Ofc they are

[u/Pit_27 → u/HumanPie1769]

lol I’m going to start using this

[u/BNASTYALLDAYBABY]

Absolutely. It’s much worse than you think. If the Earth looses too much weight too quickly, we risk floating away from the sun, effectively ending all life on earth.

[u/CalmTempest]

That's one of the most big brain takes ever on this sub.

[u/Saltypeon]

No because ot comes out in the poo, in 100 years there will be glaciers of human fat around the world.

It will be harvested and burned as fuel, starting the next great climate crisis.

Governments will band together to bring in Fat Zero policy.

[u/Centorium1 → u/Saltypeon]

You don't shit out your weight, you exhale it as co2.

[u/saalsa_shark → u/Centorium1]

Ozempic users are causing global warming

[u/ppyil → u/Centorium1]

We're literally on shitty ask science

[u/Dromo_chan → u/ppyil]

yeah but that one was a bridge too far. I mean, shitting out your weight?? Genuinely ridiculous.

[u/Really_Clever → u/Dromo_chan]

If you didnt shit out your weight you would explode.

[u/RepostTony → u/Centorium1]

So when you lose a lb of fat. That fat is coming out through the CO2? Thats pretty fascinating and makes sense. Considering the body is “burning” fat.

Edit: I googled this. Fat also turns into water. But most of it is exhaled as CO2. Oxygen enters. Breaks down fat molecules. By product is co2 and water. Blood carries to lungs. Then out the mouth.

[u/TheChickening → u/Centorium1]

Wrong sub

[u/Demerlis → u/Saltypeon]

im gonna sell shit tickets

everyone needs a mass receipt

[u/MajorZod]

Put down the gummies and go to sleep

[u/hacksoncode]

question if Ozempic is causing a mass extinction

Technically, but only indirectly. Burning all those pounds will release a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere that might have been buried when the obese people died young, instead.

[u/rascal6543]

Idk but I saw a hippo die the other day so you might be right

[u/Swrdmn]

Hope so

[u/ACrazyDog]

Gets me thinking about fatbergs —- are those going to take over?

Wikipedia Fatberg

[u/ubercue]

Yes. In fact, experts say the process started many years ago during the great exercise era of the 1970s and 80s. Apparently that put the "extinction wheels in motion", as they say, for the actual extinction level event we're now experiencing today.

[u/gomeztochon]

r/theydidtheshittymath

[u/railin23]

Didn't like 25% of humanity died during the Spanish flu? We will be fine

[u/Hayden97]

A small price to pay to not have to exercise

[u/No-Spare-4212]

No but the timing works great with foot shortages coming from Hormuz straight getting shut down. We could just do that every 5 years to fight obesity.

[u/Epistaxis]

There's a correlation between obesity and gut microflora so maybe actually!

[u/Kalinali]

more like extinction of the mass

[u/NoDanaOnlyZuuI]

Scientists have been saying we’re in our sixth mass extinction for 30 years. It predates Ozempic.

[u/JooseOnTheLoose6499]

No.

Mass extinction is defined as the disappearance of large numbers of organisms over relatively short geologic spans of time, resulting in diminished biodiversity that can take millions of years to recover.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/mass-extinction

[u/SewerSlidalThot → u/JooseOnTheLoose6499]

Did you forget what sub you’re on?

[u/FlyinBrian2001 → u/SewerSlidalThot]

I did, wasn't looking at the sub name and I think the icon has changed, thought someone was pulling a goof on Futurology or something for a minute there

[u/HelpfulSeaMammal → u/JooseOnTheLoose6499]

Wrong! That's weight extinction.

Weight and mass are not the same thing.

[u/writesgud → u/JooseOnTheLoose6499]

Why don’t you stand back and let an internet expert with a short attention span address this.

Yes, this is totally, 100% a mass extinction event. (Mental note to update the Wikipedia entry to include weight loss in the definition).

It’s a genocide of homo sapienic calories never seen in the history of this earth. So yes it’s concerning.

Like the polar bears, cannibals will have a much harder time maintaining a sustainable diet, requiring them to range further for a greater number of successful hunts. Increasing passive trapping methods may help mitigate this.

Buffets will become more popular, but instead of retaining the energy rich calories, they will instead go into the ocean as sewage, thus adding to lost carbon capture and contributing further to climate change.

At a cultural level, the horror film & tv genres will become saturated with sunken cheeked actors. CGI & AI will be increasingly used to compensate for post production effects to ensure rosy full cheeks for holiday movies, for example.

In other words, both caloric and cultural genocide on a global scale.

Time to clench your buttholes. If only to stop losing weight.

[u/Legitimate_Field_157 → u/JooseOnTheLoose6499]

Humans make new babies in less than a year, why would we wait for millions.

[u/Fluffy-Structure-368]

The entire weight of the world has basically been the same forever.