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The Climate Is Changing Everything—Including Our Sex Lives
The New Republic ^ | July 27, 2023 | by Julia Sonenshein

Posted on 07/27/2023 5:14:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When the fires from Canada blanketed New York City in smoke last month, my partner and I tried to have sex in the early evening. But the terrible air quality outside made us shallow-breathed and racked by coughing fits in the orange light. Our lungs have been the subject of much neurosis for the last three years in a pandemic deeply intertwined with climate change, and when we finally caught the virus eight months before the smoke came, we each developed a cough that wouldn’t leave us.

In climate change, we face an unimaginable threat to humanity. As humans do, however, we’re living through it: We’re working, we’re cooking dinner, we’re seeing friends, and we’re having sex. But sex is changing. Birth rates are down, and some people who are forgoing parenthood cite climate change as a factor.

There is alarming evidence that climate change both directly and indirectly impacts our sexual health, including due to increased gender-based violence or disruptions in sexual or reproductive services because of extreme weather. There also exists a body of writing on the logistics of climate change and sex: It’s getting hotter, so sex might become a more uncomfortable, sweatier affair. But a thornier question, perhaps, is to ask how intimacy is changing in the face of impending doom. How is desire affected when the world as we know it seems to be ending in front of our eyes?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: econuts; globalwarming; hoax; juliasonenshein; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 07/27/2023 5:14:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a real article?


2 posted on 07/27/2023 5:16:09 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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Yup


3 posted on 07/27/2023 5:16:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: janetjanet998

Many on the Left believe this non-sense. It is their new pagan religion.


4 posted on 07/27/2023 5:17:29 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thanks for the pic - tells me all I need to know about the authoress of this piece.When the fires from Canada blanketed New York City in smoke last month, my partner and I tried to have sex [...]

'Course, the first sentence also provided a clue.

Regards,

5 posted on 07/27/2023 5:17:31 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When the fires from Canada blanketed New York City in smoke last month, my partner and I tried to have sex in the early evening.

The Canadian fires are the result of decades of forrest mismanagement, not climate change, you ditz.

6 posted on 07/27/2023 5:17:31 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate. Is there anything it can’t do?
The STEM avoiding media is sticking to their rule of at least one climate fear porn lie each and every day.
Oh well, they are journalists. You know, the ones who got those Fs back in science classes. (That is, way back when schools actually gave Fs.)


7 posted on 07/27/2023 5:18:01 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She looks like loads of fun in the sack.

Not.

L


8 posted on 07/27/2023 5:18:06 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: janetjanet998

Not really. It’s the ramblings of a wine swilling, cat owning woman.
She’s likely on the pill with sexual partners in triple digits.
Her opinions belong in the circular file cabinet.


9 posted on 07/27/2023 5:19:43 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The selfie generation. Obsessed with self. Fearful of everything. Wholly submissive to any “expert” or government whim.

Is there anything globull warming can’t do or isn’t responsible for?


10 posted on 07/27/2023 5:19:51 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If anything, it’s made the pedos hornier than ever


11 posted on 07/27/2023 5:19:57 AM PDT by albie
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To: Lurker

True dat.


12 posted on 07/27/2023 5:20:01 AM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the weather hot and sticky, ain’t no time dunking ducky.
When the frost is on the punkin, that’s the time for dicky dunkin!


13 posted on 07/27/2023 5:21:23 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Lurker

She’s showing the devil’s horns.


14 posted on 07/27/2023 5:21:56 AM PDT by C210N
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To: sauropod

I dig on hetero sweaty.


15 posted on 07/27/2023 5:23:00 AM PDT by Conservet (Look back to go forward.)
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To: janetjanet998

Apparently she hasn’t heard that immigrants are coming here to have the sex that Americans won’t have.


16 posted on 07/27/2023 5:25:02 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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There is alarming evidence that climate change both directly and indirectly impacts our sexual health, including due to increased gender-based violence or disruptions in sexual or reproductive services because of extreme weather.

I'm confused. I thought the Super Bowl did that...and during the middle of winter which is cold for most of the country.

17 posted on 07/27/2023 5:25:12 AM PDT by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what an excuse!


18 posted on 07/27/2023 5:27:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: EEGator

Well said.


19 posted on 07/27/2023 5:28:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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