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Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP in 'bonkers' EU row
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Posted on 04/30/2012 8:04:20 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP in 'bonkers' EU row

By Tamara Cohen

PUBLISHED: 17:54 EST, 19 April 2012 | UPDATED: 18:26 EST, 19 April 2012

A bizarre row has broken out among EU politicians over whether climate change is a feminist issue.

Members of the European Parliament will vote today on a report by a French Green party MEP who claims global warming ‘is not gender neutral’.

Women, claims Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, ‘consume more sustainably than men and show greater willingness to act to preserve the environment’ as they tend to organise household consumption and childcare.

She said that discrimination against women could be made worse in the developing world if climate policies do not take gender discrimination into account.

She was yesterday subjected to a withering attack from Marina Yannakoudakis, a Tory MEP for London, who called her motion ‘bonkers, baseless and bad for women’.

The report – Women and Climate Change – calls for a 40 per cent female quota on all EU delegations in climate negotiations and on the committees that allocate climate aid from member states. Funding is set to reach £62billion a year by 2020.

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To: Sub-Driver

“Women, claims Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, ‘consume more sustainably than men and show greater willingness to act to preserve the environment’”

Well, if by this she means that women are more gullible in falling prey to global warming hysteria, then I think she is probably correct.


21 posted on 04/30/2012 10:22:38 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: FreedomOfExpression
Women are at greater risk from global warming than men

More skin surface, close to the heart, because of big tits, cause overheating of the aorta, which causes more heart attacks among women.

Thank God for big breasted women {and small breasted women}.

22 posted on 04/30/2012 10:41:58 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP in 'bonkers' EU row

Wouldn't Rush say "women and minorities hardest hit again?"

23 posted on 04/30/2012 11:21:56 AM PDT by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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Women, claims Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, ‘consume more sustainably than men and show greater willingness to act to preserve the environment’ as they tend to organise household consumption and childcare.

It is manifestly unfair that Nicole Kiil-Nielsen has a double (hyphenated) last name. That is not sustainable. She is depriving poor and minority women by using up a last name that could have gone to them. Besides, every unnecessary use of a hyphen, let along all of those extra vowels and consonants, consumes badly-needed resources and adds to the burden on the environment. We need a law...

24 posted on 04/30/2012 11:38:15 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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