You just need to mind your p’s and q’s, mister!
Six ways climate change is sexist (and what you can do to fight it)
When climate-fueled hurricanes hit coastlines, when unseasonable droughts kill crops, and when hundred-year floods surge through river valleys, it all makes the existing inequalities between men and women, boys and girls, that much worse.
In other words, climate change is sexist.
Over the next three weeks, leaders from around the world will be gathering in the United Arab Emirates in the lead-up to the COP28 climate conference, where they plan to “provide a comprehensive assessment of progress since adopting the Paris Agreement.”
While the laws are pretty good in the UAE for women, especially compared to other Muslim nations, in practice there is a lot of work to be done. Also, that their economy is primarily dependent on fossil fuels.
So, what are the 6?
- Gender-Based Violence and Climate Change (violence against women didn’t start till the use of fossil fuels)
- Climate change has a gendered impact on livelihoods (women never had issues with work before the Industrial Revolution)
- Climate-Induced Displacement (the weather never caused people to move before 1850)
- Unequal Representation in Climate Negotiations (wait, does this mean the climate cult is sexist?)
- Gender-Blind Climate Finance (isn’t it rather sexist to think that women can only survive with the helpful hand of government?)
- Lack of Gender-Responsive Climate Solutions (same as #5)
It’s crazy.
