Obesity Is The Public Health Equivalent Of Climate Change

Not even close.

"The obesity epidemic is the public health equivalent of climate change, the Faculty of Public Health's annual conference in Cardiff will hear today. Not only are the consequences of both potentially catastrophic if allowed to go unchecked, but each are extremely complex problems that require nothing less than a fundamental policy overhaul to address."

Fighting overweight/obesity can be done with 100% effectiveness and 100% completely and with 100% certainty and with 100% success by the individual.

Global warming cannot.

What stops people is bad diet advice (see here and here) and entitlement policies that cause the rest of us to suffer.