Posted on 04/22/2019 1:00:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Within even the last 12 months, there’s been a shift in how we talk about climate change. What we once framed as a serious but distant threat is now an imminent catastrophe, with implications that are hard even to imagine. And as the crisis deepens, all the other issues we face - from public health to national security to immigration - will become that much more complicated to address.
It’s no surprise that as sea levels rise, people who live in coastal cities will be at greater risk for flood or that parts of sub-Saharan African will have to contend with famine sooner than the Pacific Northwest will. Those are discrepancies we can plan for. What's less understood is the extent to which climate change overall will have a disproportionate impact on women.
As scientists put it, climate change and gender are inextricably linked. In less-developed regions, it falls to women to gather food and water for their families. If crops can’t grow, those women will lose both their livelihoods and their food source.
At the same time, as extreme weather events become more frequent, huge populations of women and families are forced to leave their homes. Women will bear the brunt of the crisis. “If we don’t consider gender roles in our understanding of climate change and its solutions, we might end up exacerbating gendered inequalities,” says Miriam Gay-Antaki, Ph.D., a university teacher in human geography at the University of Edinburgh, who studies the intersection of gender and climate change.
But here’s the (additional) problem: Even as scientists know that to be true, the vast majority of people who work in climate science are men. And sexism and prejudice within their ranks have an impact on the research that the field produces.
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Rush called it. 20+ years ago. Liberal pandering.
“Women and minorities hit hardest.”
World To End Tomorrow: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit
Yes, I’m sure that women and children and minorities will be hardest hit by global warming and flooding of coastal cities.
These “enviro-idiots” go out of their way to see who can come up with the most idiotic and hair-brained thought yet...
It’s a competition to see who can be the most stupid....
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OKAY!!!!!!
Glamour Magazine just entered the contest!!!!!!!
Climate change causes warts and pimples and can lead to blindness. Also causes hair to grow on your palms.
Why are women’s voices being ignored?
My, I haven’t a clue...
But here’s the (additional) problem: Even as scientists know that to be true, the vast majority of people who work in climate science are men. And sexism and prejudice within their ranks have an impact on the research that the field produces.
So there aren’t enough women scientists studying global warming? And the sex of the scientists is a major issue with scientific research because, because why???
Climate Change is Sexist.
Wait, here’s a clue why women’s voices aren’t being heard...https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3743848/posts
A slippery slope covered in Bull$h!t.
World To End Tomorrow: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit
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Of course the irony is lost on the professionally stupid.
Translation: “Why are they ignoring our lies?”
Talk to Mother Earth about your problem. 45 years ago she was threatening to give us the cold shoulder.
Now we have to contend with Hot Flashes.
Come on, GAIA, make up your mind!
/sarc
And another...https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3743851/posts
And another...https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3743824/posts
Sounds like someone’s trying to justify funding for studies on how women are discriminated against related to globull warming. If that issue can be resolved, someone will point out that there is not proper racial and sexual identity/orientation representation related to globull warming. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Where to start with this?
If scientists "know", rather than "demonstrate", something to be true, then it isn't science, it's opinion.
The fact that the scientists are men is irrelevant.
The fact that the scientists are not women is irrelevant.
If sexism and prejudice affect the scientists' research, then they're not scientists.
If science is decided based on the gender of those performing the experimentation, rather than on generally accepted scientific methods, then it isn't science.
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