Posted on 11/27/2017 6:26:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As global warming exacerbates drought and floods, farmers’ incomes plunge – and girls as young as 13 are given away to stave off poverty.
... Everyone has their own idea of what climate change looks like. For some, it’s the walrus struggling to find space on melting ice floes on Blue Planet II. For others, it’s an apocalyptic vision of cities disappearing beneath the waves. But for more and more girls across Africa, the most palpable manifestation of climate change is the baby in their arms as they sit watching their friends walk to school. Many experts are warning a real and growing crisis: the emergence of a generation of child brides as a direct result of a changing climate.
Malawi made it illegal to marry below the age of 18 in 2015 and wrote it into its constitution this year. The rate of child marriage should be falling. Yet it persists. In Mozambique the number of child brides is actually rising as a result of the growing population. Something else has entered the equation.
“We do not have detailed figures, but I would say 30% to 40% of child marriages in Malawi are due to the floods and droughts caused by climate change,” he says.
Poverty is the key factor, increasingly driven by climate change. The International Monetary Fund says that 70% of the 19 million population live below the poverty line, and 25% live in extreme poverty: “Considering that a significant number of the non-poor in rural areas are highly vulnerable to weather shocks, the poverty rate is – if anything – expected to increase due to the impact of recent floods and drought.”
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Is there anything it can't do?
Or maybe ... I don't know ... Islam?
Foolish me, and I thought it was Islam.
I see. “Climate change” is the new name for “Islamic sex slavery?”
Well at least they are getting married instead of cranking out fatherless kids like Americans do. So I see this “climate change” deal as a good thing.
Of course global warming must be it. /sarcasm
I suspect that perverts are idiotic enough to believe the world-is-ending hype and decide to act out because they will die before they can be punished.
Oh good grief.
This is getting past ridiculous.
Further proof of the damage that math challenged idiots can do.
Does this mean we should grab a number? Or something else.
It is their culture, don’t judge... Or make excuses blaming it on the weather.
And his book..........
His resume:
Almost the entire Continent of Africa has been holding their fellow man in Slavery and selling human beings since the beginning of Recorded History, When did man made global warming finally become the culprit for this moral depravity exhibited by the vast majority of black people on this planet??
Hey! I know, how about the US taxpayer give trillions of dollars to other countries to fight globull warming? Sure! That'll work.
Gee, let's put Al Gore and Tom Steyer in charge of handing out carbon credits. Then they, and their leftist SJW groups can rake in billions to fight Republicans, I mean climate change. And, they can build an global infrastructure to monitor all output to determine who should be producing what, or if someone is producing the wrong things.
Let's meter everyone's home to make sure everyone has their thermostats set at 65 in the winter and monitor their fuel and electrical usage. Yeah, that's the ticket.
And then we can get everyone into driverless cars and control who goes where. That will surely help stave off globull warming, but I'm sure there will be much, much more to do to stop this scourge -- like "sensible gun control".
Is there anything it can’t do?
Climate change, if it were to exist, would be an effect, not a cause, so it would not be able to create anything.
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