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Is there a causal relationship between electricity consumption and obesity, or is it just an illusory correlation❓

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[–] LabPlot@floss.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Spuddaccino

For example: Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati, Nauru with electricity consumption per capita (the median) 548 kWh.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, that explains a lot, then.

These are all island nations in Oceania that receive large amounts of their food supply from outside the country. This offloads much of the energy cost of refrigeration onto whatever nation owns the ship. I don't know if there's a good way of figuring out how much energy is spent shipping supplies to those countries, though.