World-wide over a billion adults are overweight & 300 million are officially obese" more than 3 000 people die every day on the worlds roads & global warming & war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy & how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise. This exciting new book argues that the pulse of fossil fuel energy released from the ground after the discovery of oil not only started the process of catastrophic climate change but also propelled the average human weight distribution upwards. The author presents a frightening vision of humans besieged by a food industry that uses sophisticated marketing techniques to sell mountains of energy-dense food to those who are "functionally paralysed" with fewer opportunities to move our bodies than ever before. We see why the accumulation of body fat is a political not a personal problem. This insightful new work offers & appraises for the reader a set of personal & political de-carbonising strategies but to tread more lightly on our world A" we first need to make sense of the systemic processes & The Energy Glut takes expert first steps in this direction."