Let the scaremongering and hysteria commence!
(The Hill) Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to “transactional sex” for survival.
The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women.
“[F]ood insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health,” it says.
Well, then it’s good that the warming has pretty much been negligible, statistically insignificant, if you will, since 1990, with a miniscule .28F increase, and a lilliputian .14F increase since 1997.
Finally, it encourages the president to “integrate a gender approach in all policies and programs” related to climate change, and to ensure these policies “support women globally to prepare for, build resilience for, and adapt to climate change.”
So, the purpose here is to introduce serious gender politics into the already highly politicized and un-scientific debate, whereby Democrats can simply call those who say anthropogenic global warming/man-induced climate change is a bunch of mule fritters all sorts of dirty names, denigrate them, and demonize them, and continue to perpetuate the so-called GOP war on women. On fake issue linked to another fake issue.
