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Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides
The Guardian ^ | November 26, 2017 | by Gethin Chamberlain

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childbrides; climatechange; droughts; envirowhackos; farmers; floods; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; islam; islamism; muslims; propaganda; slavery
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To: eyeamok

There is only one way to fix this problem and this is by sending plenty of money. Take it from industrious nations and people who work for a living and send it on to the ones who primarily specialize in reproduction and the problem is solved.


21 posted on 11/27/2017 6:58:14 AM PST by saintgermaine (saintgermaine the time traveller)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, there were never floods or droughts before?

In the 1930s during the dust bowl, why didn’t the Okies marry off their young daughters? They could have done this also after the great Johnstown flood in 1889, no?

EXCEPT they weren’t Muslim savages.

Thanks for playing!


22 posted on 11/27/2017 6:58:31 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bet all the removed comments under the article had the “I” word in them.


23 posted on 11/27/2017 7:01:24 AM PST by servo1969
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wait a minute. When I was young and we had Global Cooling, we were told of a plan to set off H-bombs around the world at precise locations. This would tilt the Earth's axis to bring on Global Warming to save us.

That's the background; my point is that we were also told that once we had Global Warming from the H-Bomb Earth Tilt there would be more crops to feed the world. So now I find out they were lying about the Global Warming extra crops?
24 posted on 11/27/2017 7:02:21 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t swear a lot, but this article made me say out loud:

“Are you f***ing kidding me?”

There’s fake news, and then there’s effing fake news.


25 posted on 11/27/2017 7:14:18 AM PST by AZLiberty (The logical endpoint of "zero-tolerance history" is zero history.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Causes drought AND flood, amazing. Only causes bad effects. Never more rain or sun or longer growing season, but only too much of everything imaginable. Total bs.


26 posted on 11/27/2017 7:17:26 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change is what clogged up my toilet.


27 posted on 11/27/2017 7:20:48 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It has nothing to do with old horny sicko perv men on the prowl for young girls.


28 posted on 11/27/2017 7:23:56 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“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.

Uhhhhhhhh...okay. So, what are the other 60 to 70% caused by?

29 posted on 11/27/2017 7:31:23 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, it IS responsible for constipation you know.


30 posted on 11/27/2017 8:03:04 AM PST by SPI-Man (I may disagree with a liberal's statement, but I will defend their right to make the statement.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This piece is so stupid it’s almost impossible to comment...


31 posted on 11/27/2017 8:14:01 AM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

So, WAGs now count as scientific proof?
32 posted on 11/27/2017 8:33:54 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: saintgermaine

There is only one way to fix this problem and this is by sending plenty of money. Take it from industrious nations and people who work for a living and send it on to the ones who primarily specialize in reproduction and the problem is solved.

...

There’s a twist. US Cronies will show up in those nearly lawless states so they can get the money, too.

Look at how the Clintons robbed Haiti.


33 posted on 11/27/2017 8:39:12 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Climate change is GOD. It is all powerful, omnipresent, omnipotent. There are no aetheists in the flooded swamp.


34 posted on 11/27/2017 9:12:49 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I will agree that poverty does contribute to earlier ages of marriage even in the USA.

If you can’t afford college and you don’t qualify for student loans and you don’t have any job prospects then getting married seems a pretty decent way to get through life.

(Says the girl who got married at 18)


35 posted on 11/27/2017 9:42:09 AM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“As global warming exacerbates drought and floods, farmers’ incomes plunge”

ya just gotta love how the uber-leftist Manchester Guardian states as an absolute fact that the above conditions (assuming that they even exist) have been proven to be products of “climate change”


36 posted on 11/27/2017 10:08:23 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

According to my calculations and the historical record, there is one thing that climate change cannot do. For some odd and mysterious reason, it cannot shrink the size of government.


37 posted on 11/27/2017 10:30:21 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ok only a crazy lib can connect pedophilia and the weather. Wow.


38 posted on 11/27/2017 10:32:00 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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39 posted on 11/27/2017 12:22:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Women prefer men with money and muscles, DUH!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess the only thing not blamed on or caused by Climate Change is my hangnail....

Maybe I should ask for Grant to study the affect of hangnails to climate change...😀

40 posted on 11/27/2017 12:55:08 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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