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According to Reuters, in Guatemala, young girls don’t get raped because they are stalked by filthy perverts, who are shielded by what appears to be a rape enabling culture; Apparently Climate Change is to blame.
Women’s organisations – and funders – are increasingly seeing climate change as a root cause of women’s problems
COPENHAGEN, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Carla Lopez remembers the first time she heard a suggestion that climate change was a factor leading to the rape of young girls.
“I was in Santa Maria Xalapan of Guatemala when a group of women said young girls were being kidnapped and raped because there was a water crisis. It was a revelation,” said the executive director of the Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres, a women’s fund based in Central America.
In the indigenous Xinca society of Xalapan, men often kidnap and rape young girls before marrying them, Lopez said, and for about a decade, the local women’s group had been campaigning to end this trend.
But in the last two years, groundwater was becoming scarce, because of weather changes and increased mining in the region. As women and girls had to walk further to fetch water, the number of kidnappings and rapes more than doubled over that period, local women said.
Read more: http://news.trust.org/item/20160520144607-yi719/
Will those poor young women really be helped if Guatemala builds a few extra wind turbines? Or would it be more useful to try to provide more security for young women at risk of being assaulted, to continue and intensify efforts to stamp out what seems to be a perverse normalisation of sexual violence, a twisted acceptance of rape as a form of courtship?
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Blaming mining companies for everything bad used to be standard practice for environmentalists, but we don’t see it so much now that Climate Change gets blamed for everything. Without knowing specifics, I find this claim highly dubious, and no more valid than atribution to CO2.
I suppose they could fix it like some advanced cultures do…..niqab
How to fix this problem:
1) Build more power plants so there is ample and stable supply of electricity
2) Build a water system that creates potable water
3) Build water pipes to the villages
Problem of women walking long distances to fetch water – solved. And it would cost a lot less than trying to reduce harmless carbon emissions. And it doesn’t matter if climate change occurs or not – it fixes the problem regardless.
The real problems are the things that prevent this from happening:
1) Corrupt political systems and lawlessness
2) Over population in poor areas of the world
3) Elite activists who don’t care about the real problems but focus on their pet projects
Its strange, but my daughter going overseas as part of a religious charity to build infrastructure is doing more good than all the climate change activists put together – and religious people are becoming despised in this country. I just can’t grasp how many people think anymore.
How about just stop apologizing for rapists and imprison them?
Wrong.
The only way to fix this is to recognise and abandon all marxist newthink. SJW, feminist, warmist… these are all merely facets of Marxist theory of everything.
Reality check is actually very simple. Feminists wants us to believe that women are at risk of rape greater than the numbers recorded in Democratic Republic of the Congo, where rape was enforced as a weapon of war. There is no such industrial-scale rape going on anywhere else. Yet we must believe we live in a rape culture, and everything SJW women dislike is rape.
Just stop giving this tripe any credibility, and keep your sanity. No point giving this undeserved credibility.
“Yet we must believe we live in a rape culture, and everything SJW women dislike is rape.”
As of a few years ago . . and then we must accept hordes of young male “refuges” (also attributed to climate change) that actually are from a “rape culture” of sorts . . lest we be accused of racism (?) by the SJWs . . and one wonders about the potential “globalist” influence on these timely outbursts of Western civilization judgmentalism . . taken ever so seriously by our tearless leaders . .
A substantial percentage of humanity is mentally ill, and the rest of us are so ill-equipped to deal with that fact that we pretend it isn’t even so.
Did climate change cause the Obama Administration to adopt their new bathroom policy? The new policy allows any man, including perverts and rapists, into the lady’s room, as long as they claim to identify as a woman. Actually, they don’t even have to claim it because you’re not allowed to second guess them or question them in any way. So first, they tell us there’s an escalating “rape culture” on college campuses, then they enact bathroom and changing room policies that can only make the problem worse.
Unbelievably disrespectful. Always blame something other than the perpetrator, always, if you’re a progressive retard. In their minds, nobody is to blame for their own bad behavior.
http://katereggadennis.blogspot.com/2016/05/are-gender-inequalities-in-trade.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_source=socialnetwork resulted in this LinkedIn comment by Billy K. Lemons . . . who has a VERY dry sense of humor, as follows:
Did you know that one can be kicked out of the Sierra Club for belching more than his/her/his-her/her-his (depending on how one “identifies” at the time) allocated share of belches after eating or drinking? … unless of course one buys certified belching credits from other SC members who don’t intend to use them.
Belching credits purchased from non-members can be substituted for those from members, but only at half the rate of those from members.
You see, belching credits allotted to, and that can be purchased from, full members contain a special natural non-toxic component that combines with the holier-than-thou elitist breath of members so as to yield extra methane capture capability.
Persons of the lowly “worker” class who do not qualify to join at the elitist “professional person” or “queen ant” classes may join at the lower “comrade worker” class and qualify for three-fifths the belching credits. But they have no rights to vote in the organization or to serve as officers.
Hey, when you’re hot you’re hot!
However, my indoctrination is predicated on the FACT that everything is caused by climate change. Right?
Now that we have go that settled, why is this news ?
/sarc off
I think there is a lot of truth to this. Bill Clinton flies to “Pedophile Island” 40 times. It is very warm if not hot there. He rapes many young girls. It is not lack of character, global warming made him do it.
Hang on, I thought the “A” in Climate Change* was for anthropogenic?
Ah, I see it now, its circular, a runaway greenhouse effect causing a runaway breeding effect!** Population growth causes C02 to increase which causes temperature to increase which causes population to increase…
There is only one solution to the problem and it is totalitarian! /sarc (For Maoists only)
*Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) was the common term pre Newspeak. Climate Change replaced AGW, it was simplified to just “Climate” but it is slated for further purification to become just “Change”.
Change will be a pejorative term in the perfect world created by our dear leaders, so it too will ultimately become a hate word! Change will then be replaced with “Unchange”, becoming “Changenot” before simplification to “Not”and the more pure “No” which, due to its negative connotations, will be replaced by “Yes”.
**Rape is forced copulation, despite it being both Illegal and immoral!
There is a radical solution to all these pervasive climate related problems. One that all aspiring SJWs should embrace:
Ban climate!
It’s a simple radical solution to a host of injustices flowing from climate issues – discrimination, mis-labelling, economic exclusion, rape, donkey-bothering, the list goes on but the true progressive who wants to stay relevant can only accept one solution:
No more climate! An end to snow and its oppressive whiteness! No more rain and rape-inducing wet t-shirts. No more cold or hot and the misogynistic baggage associated with these terms. No more phallic tornados! A world without climate – safe and free for all, the bew progressives’ dream.
Why not? After all, the president of the UN himself has a name which means a slogan to ban the moon.
btw “bew” should read “new”
I would agree with the sensational headline. All the money that USED to go to projects like fresh water sources has been siphoned off into building wind towers and jetting to climate conferences. The developed world has fallen behind in what WAS a growing program designed to improve the lives and health of indigenous populations by bringing energy and clean water to their doorsteps. Who’s feet should be covered in the cause of young children being raped? Green watermelon feet.
This same exact silly claim (more rapes due to climate change because girls had to walk longer distances through dangerous territory to get water) was made several years back by some CAGW alarmist. I don’t mean to make light of rape, but this claim is laughable. The need to get water is gender neutral. Men can carry more water because they are stronger. Civilized and educated people everywhere, including those in the eco-radical NGOs know how to set up police forces, dig wells, pipe clean water to remote villages, and even truck water in emergencies. The CAUSE of a rape is the rapist.
Is there any data on how many young boys go missing when the set out for water I wonder?
I’ve commented on a few variations of this kind of thinking and see in them unmistakable (unwitting perhaps?) racism. I written on the egregious notion that ..”to give a (non-white) man a fish, he can eat for a day; to teach this helpless fellow how to fish, he can eat for a lifetime…” How bloody arrogant, how paternalistic the sweet superior “kindness” of this kind of philanthropy. Here in this cradle of humankind, where its inhabitants had flourished for 3 million years, we are going to teach him how to stay alive!! Even the ‘science’ of sociology is too lofty to frame these other societies. We created ‘anthropology’ to deal with such people.
I witnessed it first hand in the mid 1960s when I worked for the Geological Survey of Nigeria (I wasn’t a technical aid worker. I was a civil servant who got a job with the newly independent government of Nigeria). There were technical aid projects back then – I got seconded by the government to a large regional UN geological and mining development project which had run aground for lack of personnel who knew anything about mining development. There were truck loads of superfluous PhD’d professors that I had to push out of the way to do the job.
The shock troops preceding the massive white NGO conglomerate that was to flood the continent to guide these ‘unfortunate backward folks’ crying out for our wisdom, cleverness, guidance and protection, were the 40 something-year-old virgin missionaries in long skirts, white ankle socks and sensible shoes, shepherded by sweaty, black suited, white collared preachers with bad skin who were a century (at least) redundant in their own European societies. First, bring them the whiteman’s god and the rest will be easy. I recall during the height of the white feminists’ war against men a few New York warriors going to the very spiritual Dogon people to emancipate their women!
A recent racist idea of the “Team” is that of Islamists in the Middle East who are killing thousands because of climate change!! Of course such as we of the north, who can shoulder the world’s burdens without a flinch, don’t buckle in the face of climate change. The Guatamalan rapists are just another reason why we of the north are so essential. Only such as we can keep a cool head in the face of mind annihilating climate change.
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I kind of agree, I think the whole aid juggernaut is monstrously narcissistic and is counter-productive, keeping Africa down. The Chinese have the right idea – keep it to business only.
The new legal defense for rape will be to blame it all on climate change.
According to the Kinsey Report, ev’ry average man you know
Much prefers his lovey-dovey to court
When the temperature is low
But when the thermometer goes ‘way up
And the weather is sizzling hot
Mister, pants for romance is not
This just in, world to end…women, children, and minorities hardest hit.
I think that the rise of feminism is the cause of climate change.
This would be the same Xalapan where a couple of years ago the government suspended legal rights in order to crush local opposition to a big silver mine that the locals thought would affect water sources, no? Guatemala apparently has a generally pleasant temperature but rainfall varies drastically throughout the year, so during the drier part, you’d be more vulnerable. Sounds to me like just perhaps it’s the mine that’s the reason for the long trips for water, which means politics, not climate change, is the issue. i have not been able to find that there has been any detectable climate change in the area, and the linked article does not as much as mention “temperature” or “rain”. Don’t these people use numbers any more?
A woman who had worked as a missionary in Papua New Guinea told me once how disgusted she was seeing a woman toiling along a jungle track with a heavy load, while her husband ambled ahead carrying only a machete. And then she realised, he wasn’t slacking, he was her bodyguard, he wasn’t carrying a load because he had to be ready to defend her from attack in an instant, he wasn’t turning his head to idly enjoy the scenery but to look for attackers. It seems to me that an able-bodied man with some sort of weapon should be able to accompany the women on their way to water and back. But wait, this is an area where the government crushed a protest a few years ago. Are the honest men of the region *allowed* much in the way of weapons?
Just a couple of comments: First of all there are documented cases of aid agencies building water supply systems so the women don’t have to fetch water, and the systems were repeatedly vandalised – by the women, who missed the opportunity to get out of the house and meet with friends. Second when I was working in Dushanbe, I remember my Kyrgyz landlady telling me that her sister was going to be kidnapped and forced to marry next Friday. She didn’t say raped, but it was probably part of the package. It was the traditional way it was done.
Actually, more rapists stay home because the temperatures are too high to stalk girls. And while we are at it, the soaring global temperatures are slowing down construction worker’s abilities to build transgender restrooms. So driving a car to the store is nothing less than a hate crime.