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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I guess she is saying that the rich, the white and the wealthy are intellectually superior.
I wonder what the birth rate is in non-air conditioned, equatorial Africa??
Laz; we need input here!
You just destroyed her argument in one sentence.
SUFFER?!?
Some of the best I ever had was outside!!
I’ll catch up when the smoke clears and the snow falls
Africa? Yes, high birth rate. And Dark skin surely makes things hotter.
“...we face an unimaginable threat to humanity.”
She has a limited imagination.
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finally some good news
Sounds like a very good benefit to the fires and climate change, end the gene pool of loopy Lucys like this.
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I thought it weird.
But that type is weird and all have mental disorders.
Oh, forgot, cannot say that.
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