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Why climate change is a feminist issue
Metro UK ^ | March 8, 2021 | by Anna Parke

Posted on 03/08/2021 4:49:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

This winter, we experienced snow and double-digit temperatures within the space of a week. Aside from the novelty of such a sudden change during lockdown, it’s a worrying sign of the climate crisis we are now facing.

This we know, but what is said less often is that climate change is a feminist issue – but it is and on International Women’s Day I want you to know why.

Firstly, women and girls are much more likely to be killed or injured in the face of a climate-related disaster.

Few are taught survival skills like how to swim or climb trees. Moreover, due to traditional caring roles, women and girls may prioritise the needs and safety of others, putting them at greater risk.

The impact of climate change may also leave women and girls exposed to different forms of gender-based violence, including child marriage. When floods hit Bangladesh in 2017, for instance,14-year-old Sarmin suddenly had to face the prospect of getting married.

All this paints a bleak picture. But, while women and girls are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, their knowledge, skills and leadership can also be a powerful defence against it.

I want to highlight what happens when the voices of women and girls are brought into the climate conversation, when their leadership is harnessed, and when they are given the space and opportunity to act.

Traditional patriarchal structures will do little to save us in our fight against climate change. We have to champion women leaders and make sure no one is left behind.

Women and girls are critical agents of change. It’s time we listened to them.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communistholiday; feminazism; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wrong. It is a “feminist” issue because most feminist women are incompetent and lack any type of leadership skills and rational thought. So, they use the old standby ‘guilt’ feminine strategy to manipulate others. I’m starting to think I wouldn’t mind losing the right to vote as a woman just to get these pathetic, self-important and irresponsible nags out of influential positions.


41 posted on 03/08/2021 5:54:04 AM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

LOL! Thanks for posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk


42 posted on 03/08/2021 5:55:00 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: Bearshouse
I agree with you totally. It was one of those "I think I can"

After hunting the first year of our marriage, I decided a week's vacation suited me even better...I packed his gear, wished him luck and I was off to the Mall!!

Our Italian friends made the best deer cutlets and it was quite an event.

43 posted on 03/08/2021 5:57:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Suns out, buns out.

The buns of women affected most. ;-)


44 posted on 03/08/2021 5:57:24 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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Swimming and climbing trees are survival skills. Right. And Really, does one have to be taught how to climb a tree?


45 posted on 03/08/2021 6:02:37 AM PST by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t know of any man who would discourage women from learning to climb trees. I am sure many would be happy to teach them just so they could stand below and look up.


46 posted on 03/08/2021 6:04:00 AM PST by libh8er
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To: hinckley buzzard

The obese would appear to be more impacted when it comes to climbing trees than “women” if we are looking at demographics.


47 posted on 03/08/2021 6:06:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: norwaypinesavage

>>”we experienced snow and double-digit temperatures within the space of a week.”

She had to find something to (redacted) complain about.

At the turn of the century they were telling us that Britons would never again see snow in their lifetimes. That children growing up would NEVER see snow.

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/12/global-warming-hysteria-2000-english-children-will-not-know-snow-2010-oops-nevermind


48 posted on 03/08/2021 6:10:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: MountainWalker

She survived the Tide Pods Challenge didn’t she? “You’re hired!”


49 posted on 03/08/2021 6:11:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

Actually, because women tend to have a higher fat/muscle ratio they would tend to float better than males.

Now, I am speaking about an actual biological male. Not a woman who now thinks that she is a male.


50 posted on 03/08/2021 7:14:50 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

>>they would tend to float better than males.

She’s a witch!


51 posted on 03/08/2021 7:16:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Bearshouse
When floods hit Bangladesh in 2017, for instance,14-year-old Sarmin suddenly had to face the prospect of getting married.....

I'm sure there must be a correlation here that I'm missing.

What, you haven't heard of 14 year old Sarmin? I thought everyone had heard of 14 year old Sarmin. She's the 14 year old who thought she would have to get married because of floods. Where have you been?

52 posted on 03/08/2021 7:19:56 AM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: SauronOfMordor

They don’t even consider it these days! It is a completely foreign notion that has been purged from young women.


53 posted on 03/08/2021 7:20:00 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Bearshouse; All

Journalism is a major for Liberal Arts college students who are not smart enough to be English majors.

We should make a list of basic things that we should teach our kids/young adults. All young people (boys and girls).

1) How to change a tire on your car.

2) How to check the oil, washer fluid, air filter, air pressure, etc on your auto.

3) How to hang a picture on a wall using a tape measure, a level, hammer and a nail.

4) How to wash clothes and fold a shirt.

5) How to cook basic foods.

6) How to throw and catch a ball.

7) How to build a fire.

8) How to swim well enough to save your life.

add your own


54 posted on 03/08/2021 7:40:08 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: a fool in paradise

She turned me into a Newt


55 posted on 03/08/2021 7:42:19 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Every culture issue is enabled by and made possible by women’s right to vote

Women like security ....period


56 posted on 03/08/2021 7:43:33 AM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG )
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To: woodbutcher1963

I’ll save you time with your list. Convenient that I posted this on another thread already today:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

-Robert Heinlein


57 posted on 03/08/2021 7:48:16 AM PST by strider44
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What are you talking about? Of course women can swim and climb trees. Geez, what a sexist pig woman. How insulting.


58 posted on 03/08/2021 10:06:58 AM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
Love your list. I would add

5) How to cook basic foods. Without a microwave.

My grandkids had no idea you could cook popcorn without a microwave or make home made pizza.

59 posted on 03/08/2021 10:30:14 AM PST by Bearshouse
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To: AloneInMass
Agreed. But even before that consideration, who the heck needs to be taught how to climb a tree?
60 posted on 03/08/2021 12:36:07 PM PST by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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