Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Conversation claims that climate change hurts women more than men, because men from backward third world countries are selfish misogynists, who let their women go hungry, and who force women to do all the unpleasant, dangerous jobs.
According to The Conversation;
… Women are also more likely to be exposed to mosquito-borne diseases through their daily activities; water collection and food harvesting puts them in close contact with mosquitoes.
Warmer temperatures, especially when combined with higher humidity following flooding, enhance transmission of diseases such as malaria, dengue and chikungunya. Women who are pregnant are especially at risk from malaria, as are children. During a disease outbreak, it is women who typically provide care, which also erodes their economic productivity.
Increasing food insecurity also disproportionately affects women and girls. Women have greater requirements than men and boys for some nutrients, even before their hard physical labour is considered.
In some cultures, women and children do not eat until the men have had their fill, further risking their health when food is scarce. As food becomes increasingly scarce and expensive, women forego other essential items such as medicines, to feed their family. …
Read more: http://theconversation.com/worldwide-climate-change-is-worse-news-for-women-49668
Even if we accept the sweeping generalisations of the article, that the key threat to poor women is misbehaviour by misogynist men from backward countries, how could it possibly improve their circumstances, if we immolate our first world economies on the altar of green idiocy?
In the West, the rise of technology and women’s liberation are inextricably intertwined. The rise of machines replaced the need for raw physical strength, with the need for patience, dexterity, intelligence and attention to detail – qualities which women can supply as easily as men.
If anyone seriously wants to help women from backward cultures, then help their countries industrialise – give them access to education, cheap energy, technology and trade opportunities, so they can follow the same path to modernity which liberated our women.
When I consider arguing with a feminazi I am reminded of the advice of G.K. Chesterton:
Damn Bob, you hit the nail right on the head, which gives me the urge to hit the head right on the nail. Was checking out a debate between Dr. Ball and our resident Idiot MP Elizabeth May and the quote you provided explains all.
Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Ih2Wi8AAQ
I can’t remember the author but the idiom goes something like this, ” Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Why does “Climate Change” always have to have negative consequences? I am certain that many women in many third world areas would have just as many positive consequences from climate change as any negative ones. Nature doesn’t just go one way.
It’s a lie built on a lie built on a lie:
If global warming is significantly impacted by manmade CO2 (doesn’t seem so from the last 18 years),
and if warming caused by manmade CO2 actually causes the stated effects known as “climate change” (I’ve not seen any evidence not based completely on climate models),
and if the effects are not balanced by as many or more benefits,
and if the cost of mitigation is not more than the cost of adaptation,
and if the mitigation actually works, and doesn’t create more problems than it solves (war, famine, economic collapse, etc)
and if something else doesn’t happen to the world to make such piddling trivialities such as a degree of warming completely irrelevant,
then we will all bask in the glow of a green nirvana
Out of curiosity, I just looked up the figures for ratios of female/male in the state-sector and private sector, here in the UK.
What I discovered is that since the mid 90’s the private sector has comprised a steady 60% male workforce.
The public sector, has not only grown during this period – BUT – the ratio of females to males has increased.
Such that now, males represent less than 35% of the state sector workforce.
Of course, the state provides some useful functions – but it has expanded rapaciously. And now, here in the UK, over 50% of GDP is government spending.
When you discover that women constitute more than 65% of the state sector workforce, then it is not hard to see why women in the UK tend to gravitate toward a preference for further expansion of the state and its priorities and schemes.
In the sense that people are disinclined to “bite the hand that feeds them”.
I also looked back at gender and voting and discovered that indeed, women have drifted over towards supporting Labour (the UK left). Actually a complete reversal seems to have occurred in this regard since the 1970’s, when the left was predominantly supported by male union members.
This may not seem to be wholly related to the topic in the O.P. but, I am interested to figure out why I struggle to find females who are suspicious of the motives of big government, or questioning of the output of government funded media (the BBC) or engaged with purportedly “scientific” assertions in a skeptical manner.
I know that there must be more Judith Currys, Joanne Novas, Donna Laframboises out there. But in my everyday experience, I do not seem to encounter any female criticism of this vastly expensive project to curb the proposed “extreme weather” phenomenon – the grand delusion of our age.
Anything in the study to link climate change, third world women and the inability to parallel park.
Mjw, it’s really easy. The vast majority of women in the third world don’t own cars and therefore the vast majority of third world women are unable to parallel park. QED
The only reason so many scientists jump onto the alarmist bandwagon is because that’s where the money is !!! If we had a system that provided money EQUALLY to both sides, most scientists would be on the side of ” unadjusted” science !!! IMHO
This is one way to close the seniority gap at academic institutions.
Is it my imagination, or are these claims becoming crazier and crazier as more and more evidence piles up that they are undeniably wrong. The greens/lefties will not hesitate to contradict their own position on one issue to advance their agenda on another issue. On the one hand, third wold people are culturally superior, hard working, and very desirable as immigrants. On the other hand, they are “selfish misogynists”.
I’m sure I read somewhere that global warming causes misogyny.
/snark
Looks like another snout in the trough expedition.
Try not to scrutinize the victim pyramid too much, it changes faster than an sjw confronted with logic.
Actually its more like a Rubik’s cube, with each cell colour randomly changed, EVERY time you turn a row.
The only winning move, is to take off and nuke the site from orbit.
+1. At least that would lead to some localised warming!
Appropriate also that the site in question is Hadley’s Hope.
According to the book, “City of Joy” (not the worthless rubbish movie of the same name), obviously written by someone with intimate knowledge of the poor of Calcutta, the rule actually is that the breadwinner eats first. And the reason is simple: if the breadwinner falls ill, everyone else starves anyway. It’s easy to see how western sophists spending two minutes of their shallow attention on the problem might get that one wrong, but that doesn’t excuse their misandry.
Absolutely Ron, as Karen Straughn points out in one of her pod casts, the Men in rural afghan villages got medical treatment first, if Dad dies, Mom and the Kids are in a world of hurt. That came anecdotally from a US Service Woman who served in Afghanistan if I remember correctly.
Kinda ironic that a Woman serving her Nation, could see on the ground, the very facts her ivory towered sisters missed entirely back stateside.
Also worth noting, the burden of performance on Afghan Men is phenomenal, and under the Taliban even more so, as Women weren’t permitted to travel without a Brother/Father or Husband to escort her.
Don’t see the third wavers crying about that on the universities, must be a taboo subject.
What passes for lefty thunking on issues afflicting the poor, is an embarrassment to the enlightenment.
Many women I know from the “3rd world” who now live in the “1st world” don’t seem to appreciate the pressures on that “bread winner”, when that person is the ONLY bread winner in the family. Choices choices!
It seems to me that there are extraordinarily high rates of education in this country and not enough brain power to even battle the imbecilic, spoiled rotten philosophies of environmentalism and de-industrialization. This is truly a psychotic pandemic which the culture is in.
It is a mess, with NonGovernmental Organizations claiming to represent “Indigenous Peoples” and “Women,” while pursuing environmental policies which raise water rates, electricity rates, and which attack the very agricultural advancements which would free women from constant weeding all day in those countries that are pretty much agrarian societies.
People need to stop handing these brilliant girls and boys over to the educational experts and trusting them to raise children for them, more like it.
http://uploads8.wikiart.org/images/william-adolphe-bouguereau/the-hard-lesson-1884.jpg
William Adolphe Bouguereau “The Difficult Lesson”
And one good painting deserves another (:
Or should that be +LV-426?
Apropos…
What do you mean “they cut the power”? How could they cut the power, man?! They’re animals!
“[SJWs], they’re coming outta the goddamn walls”
“LETS ROCK!’
Queue Smart Guns…no really,…seriously don’t hold back,…if just one of those things gets in here, we’re all dead.
HIppies LOVE her!
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/images/lessiveuse.jpg
Find out the secret of happiness discovered by NGOs introducing Agenda21 in your country. You WON”T BELIEVE IT! It’s washing laundry by hand in a barely lit cabin!!! Only do laundry once a month, or once a year with this REVOLUTIONARY new laundry trick!
“The buck wash was a relatively infrequent cleansing of household linen and clothes. (More about this in the Great Wash.) In the water were “bleaches” like ashes or urine. As bucking gradually became less popular during the 18th and 19th centuries it was sometimes combined with, or alternated with, a soap wash.
Millet painted the Lessiveuse in the 1850s: a woman heating water and pouring it onto her laundry through a layer of ashes spread on a bucking-cloth. The bucking-tub is raised on a frame, and a plug-hole allows the water to run out into a bucket underneath. For many hours, the water passes through the tubful of laundry, as it is re-heated and poured back in over and over again.”
source: http://www.oldandinteresting.com/lye-bucking.aspx
the femine story goes:
1. LOVE
2. get pregnant.
3. DIVORCE. child and house are mine.
4. alimentaries until child get’s it’s grades.
5. Unemployed GoodDoers Life on subsidies for NGO’s, ….
alternative:
2.1. LOVE, 2.2 get pregnant, ….
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what reigns is evolution and thats the trap.
I can tell you a little story, a divorce (Not my own). I was messaging to my friend one day just a few months ago, she is from Zimbabwe in Aus. She was also messaging to her sister, in Zimbabwe (Might be South Africa). Anyway, my friend sent me a message by mistake, it was intended for her sister. I responded anyway because knew I could help (Some may not agree with that, so be it!). And it was as simple as this (A message by mistake); If her marriage was legal in Zimbabwe and that marriage was recognised in Australian family law, she could submit an application for divorce from here, from Australia, by post. A few hundred AU$$$ later (I actually did the application as she had no PC), it was done.
People can help others in unexpected ways when the law is an ass.
patrick – it’s their houses, their childs. They wanted, let them reign.
our’s is the world; we never forbade them universe – a concept they just lack.
‘paradise’ is the arabic word for the stonewalled garden at the hind door, mostly dry, greened as affordable. Where woman, children and pets dwell.
Leave’em the costly paradises.
Thx for the view. Hans
Well, it seem that the solution is obvious. As lack of development results in massive male chauvinism the obvious answer is that the UDCs must develop as quickly as humanly possible.
And, as lack of development results directly in shocking destruction of the environment, that development is doubly vital.
So if you care about women (and the environment) — bring on the coal.
I made a comment on The Conversation below this article, in support of another comment which had been critical of the article and had been responded with comments to the effect that people who were critical should be prevented from commenting. I too was told that my comments were not wanted there. It seems that only a very one-sided ‘Conversation’ is what they actually want.
My comments were then removed by the moderator. I shall not be reading anything else from this site. Its views are worse than the Guardian.
You’re right ANH. I’ve copied the following from the comments section over at The Conversation:
Doesn’t seem to be much of a ‘conversation’ to me…
Zeke October 26, 2015 at 5:56 pm
“It seems to me that there are extraordinarily high rates of education in this country and not enough brain power to even battle the imbecilic, spoiled rotten philosophies of environmentalism and de-industrialization. This is truly a psychotic pandemic which the culture is in.”
Rule number two: Never confuse education with intelligence.
There is a simple answer to that. Divert all the money spent on climate change research to providing well paid jobs for women and do not allow any aid whatever to go to males who have not worked for it. Also do not allow in a single male refugee to any western country until he has proved he has done everything possible to see his family were properly provided for before he looked after his own welfare. Send them back with no rights of appeal whatever.
Even when they get here the difference in the achievement of African based immigrants and their Asian counterparts says they are out of place here. The Africans are intelligent but do not confuse that with useful when laziness and dishonesty is a cultural requirement they seem to equate with getting “respect” in some areas.
“liberated our women”
A bit contradictory? lol