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Sigourney Weaver: Global Warming is Sexist - Improving Women's Lives Will Solve The Problem
NewsBusters ^ | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 06/02/2011 8:13:29 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com

If you're like me, you've been waiting for feminist claims that global warming is harder on women and therefore should be a greater concern to the public.

Actress Sigourney Weaver of "Alien" fame did just that Thursday with an astonishingly ludicrous article published at the Huffington Post - a website rife with astonishingly ludicrous articles:

"You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat: that it would endanger men and women alike. But the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."

Yep. She wrote that. It's so absurd it's worth repeating: "climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."

How you might ask?

Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in the developing world. Drought and unpredictable rains brought on by climate change will make this work far more precarious. Women will have to labor harder and longer to ensure their families have food, fuel, and water.

Our role as caretakers puts us at even greater risk in times of extreme weather. Studies have found that women are 14 times more likely to die as a result of storms and other extreme weather than men.

Fourteen times! Why? Because women often look after the children, the elderly, and the sick, and that means we have less mobility in a flood or wildfire.

Shh. Wait. It gets better:

If you ask people the tools we need to stop climate change, most talk about wind and solar energy, fuel efficient cars, and biofuels. But there is another solution that is not so widely known: empowering women.
Yep. We can solve rising temperatures by - wait for it! - empowering women:
Two groundbreaking studies, one from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and one from the Futures Group, found that simply by meeting women's existing needs for voluntary family planning, we could reduce carbon emissions by between 8 and 15 percent.

That is the equivalent of stopping all deforestation today...Improving women's lives while curbing emissions offers another arrow in our quiver.

Yep. Improving women's lives will lower temperatures on the planet.

I wonder if Tipper Gore agrees with this premise?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: environmentalism; idiots; sigourneyweaver
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1 posted on 06/02/2011 8:13:33 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: RatherBiased.com

And I thought Susan Sarandon was annoying.


2 posted on 06/02/2011 8:16:06 PM PDT by Mears
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I wonder if Tipper Gore agrees with this premise?

Why? Does she need her second chakra (spelling?) released?

3 posted on 06/02/2011 8:16:09 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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Logical extension of the old-time predicted headline: World Ends: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

Global warming deniers like me might have to recant - after all, the noted climate expert Sigourney Weaver has weighed in.
4 posted on 06/02/2011 8:18:08 PM PDT by rockvillem
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Sigourney Weaver is a good actress...
but she makes Ann Coulter look like a tub of lard. Seriously somebody needs to get that woman a cheeseburger with extra grease pronto!


5 posted on 06/02/2011 8:18:22 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
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There is no Sigourney. Only Zul.
6 posted on 06/02/2011 8:21:37 PM PDT by Ken H
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I think an alien has invaded her body and devoured her brain.

Just when you think a “celebrity” and she is a minor one at that, could not say anything more stupid, people like her lower the bar once again.

Honest to God, there has to be something in the water out in Hollyweird. Stupid potion number nine perhaps.
7 posted on 06/02/2011 8:22:31 PM PDT by NWFLConservative (Saracuda.........game on in 2012!)
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Nuke her from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.


8 posted on 06/02/2011 8:23:09 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (After the Commies take over, Moderates will become an endangered species...)
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To: RatherBiased.com

Since she is merely an actress and not a scientist, I would consider her article merely musings of another leftist fool who assumes that becoming a star anoints her with wisdom and intelligence.


9 posted on 06/02/2011 8:23:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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Oh yeah...she was also the voice of the computer in Wall-E. I loved Wall-E, in part because I didn’t have to actually SEE Sigourney Weaver.


10 posted on 06/02/2011 8:23:44 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
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To: RatherBiased.com
This thread is useless without pictures.


11 posted on 06/02/2011 8:24:54 PM PDT by bagadonutz
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Cheeseburgers
Donuts
Pasta
Pizza
That woman needs help !


12 posted on 06/02/2011 8:25:57 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
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...but she makes Ann Coulter look like a tub of lard.

Methinks you've not seen a recent photo of Sigourney Weaver. She's far less...svelt than Ann Coulter.


13 posted on 06/02/2011 8:26:01 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (A "Moderate Muslim"? Nothing more than a Muslim Extremist who has run out of ammo.)
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To: RatherBiased.com
I knew a guy who went to college with her in the late 1960s and early 1970s or there about. He said she was very tall and only could possibly only look good with about 4 hours of makeup. Despite the fact she attended a prestigious University, the woman is a dumb as a box of rocks.

Every year that goes by I lose respect for American Universities. How can so many dumb and foolish people graduate from top notch (so called) institutions.
14 posted on 06/02/2011 8:26:37 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

post of the night


15 posted on 06/02/2011 8:26:41 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Well bless her heart. She may be a lib but she looks better with curves than angles!


16 posted on 06/02/2011 8:27:23 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
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To: RatherBiased.com

I’m rooting for the aliens now to eat her..


17 posted on 06/02/2011 8:27:23 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: RatherBiased.com

Only a few more years to go. Maybe there is a reason to try to live longer after all: just to see the world without the bizarre clucking from our rich and famous Baby Boomer peers.


18 posted on 06/02/2011 8:29:16 PM PDT by familyop (Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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"climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."

Women and minorities hardest hit! lol.

19 posted on 06/02/2011 8:29:55 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: RatherBiased.com; marvlus; DollyCali; markomalley; Bockscar; Thunder90; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

20 posted on 06/02/2011 8:31:03 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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