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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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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.
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!
I bet all the removed comments under the article had the “I” word in them.
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.
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.
Climate change is what clogged up my toilet.
It has nothing to do with old horny sicko perv men on the prowl for young girls.
Uhhhhhhhh...okay. So, what are the other 60 to 70% caused by?
Well, it IS responsible for constipation you know.
This piece is so stupid it’s almost impossible to comment...
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.
Climate change is GOD. It is all powerful, omnipresent, omnipotent. There are no aetheists in the flooded swamp.
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)
“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”
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.
Ok only a crazy lib can connect pedophilia and the weather. Wow.
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Maybe I should ask for Grant to study the affect of hangnails to climate change...😀
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