Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Catherine McKenna, Canadian minister for the Environment and Climate Change is training “woman negotiators” to combat global warming.
Canadian Climate Minister Urges Attention to the ‘Gendered Impacts’ of Climate Change
by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. 10 Mar 20183407
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change is urging environmental activists to address the “gendered impacts” of climate change, especially its effects on women and girls.
In a recent post on Twitter, Catherine McKenna, the 47-year-old Trudeau appointee from Canada’s Liberal Party, called on followers to “consider the gendered impacts of climate change on women, girls and children” while praising Canada’s leadership in training “women negotiators” in the fight against manmade global warming.
Apparently, at least in the minister’s mind, the weather is now waging its own “war on women.”
"We need to consider the gendered impacts of climate change on women, girls and children. I am proud that Canada is training up women negotiators so that we have more female voices around the table" https://t.co/Ms3t5B0DNJ #OceanSummit pic.twitter.com/CZRpKAq13B
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) March 9, 2018
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I am shocked by the narrow minded gender insensitivity displayed by Catherine’s comment.
How can you possibly consider the gendered impacts of climate change without also considering the transgendered impacts of climate change? Why restrict the training program to women negotiators when there are so many other under-represented genders? Of course I am using the word transgendered in its broadest sense, no offence intended to people who identify as perigender, vapogender or any of the constantly growing list of other genders.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-oil-climatesuits/california-cities-sue-big-oil-firms-over-climate-change-idUSKCN1BV2QM
So California cities are suing the very energy companies whose NGO components finance the environmental movement that accuses them of changing the climate. I suspect collusion between defendant and prosecution, the alarmists need court victories to have any legitimacy or precedent in other legal contests with skeptics. The energy companies stand to make far more money from the cap and trade than selling energy, plus they can drive up prices by switching to “renewables”.
The warmists like to say we’re in the anthropocene epoch. I think we have truly entered the stupidocene epoch. Thankfully, I’m 81 years old and won’t live to see how this all ends.
…“consider the gendered impacts of climate change”…
Okay, at the behest of our Environment Minister I’ve given the subject all the consideration it deserves. Possibly even more than it deserves. But I might need her guidance to determine whether my conclusion is sexist or healthy: If I can’t avoid getting blown, I’d prefer Irma or Maria to Harvey.
As a Canadian, I apologize for having a fool like this in our government. She, like our “Prime Minister” is an embarrassment.
Typical Canadian, apologizing for something that you are not responsible for.
For example: I’m out shopping and accidentally bump into someone with my shopping cart. They turn around and apologise to me. I laugh and do it to someone else’s cart. Same response. So far, my empirical data suggests that Canadians have this strange idea that they must apologise for almost everything that they aren’t responsible for. Truly indicative of a self hating culture, or maybe the result of having no identifiable culture at all. Further study is merited.
Let me apologize for Mick.
In some cultures, self-effacement is built into the traditional etiquette. The Japanese are one example.
So you’re the clumsy oaf who bumped into me the other day! Twice! 🙂
She spews this kind of nonsense, but then expresses indignation when the right wing commentators refer to her as Climate Barbie. Did she happen to indicate how the effects of climate change will affect the female gender differently than the male gender? Perhaps Trudeau’s new buddy, Bill Nye, can shed some light on that.
Justin Trudeau and Bill Nye – a meeting of the mimes.
For one example see Trudeau’s recent visit to India
For another see Nye pretending to be a scientist
Women, including neo-women? Perhaps males with feminine traits, including a sexual orientation that favors other males?
I suppose the “target group” attendees at the Trent (Canada) University workshop on Anti Whiteness will be from Justin Trudeau’s praised Islam and Muslim communities. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/10/university-host-its-ok-be-against-whiteness-worksh/
Ha ha
Sorry, I came in late. How are Canadians of either/any gender damaged by temps increasing even 4-5 degrees?
Re Dave Magill: Bingo!
She reminds me of Stormy Daniels. Appropriate, in light of the fear mongering associated with Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC). Also because she is a sucker for the theory of CACC.
Canadians truly express our contempt for the status quo, when we deliberately elect person such as this.
Climate barbie is proud of her ignorance.
A feature not a bug..
The rush to the logical conclusion of our current mass delusion is on.
Venezuela here we come.
Why support(Vote) conservative when they are not?
Every political parasite in Canada is out to help us, help us into poverty that is.
All support huge government imposition onto the individual.
None advocate property rights,civic responsibility and personal responsibility.
And none dare contemplate that the stealing by government must end.
As a consequence we elect pretty vacant people.
My best hope is the current kleptocracy crashes and burns while we still have skilled builders left alive.
These useless preening parasites are impossible to parody, to mock them is to feed their delusions of competency.
The vast distance between maker and taker seems like a chasm.
End Rant.
Carbonista; Seeking to cool the frozen waste lands of Canada.
Degree growing day, not in policy handbook.
Too late for Ontario – it’s gone. Maritimes to follow soon along with BC, Sask. and Man. Maybe some hope for Alberta and Labrador but that’s about it.
Is there any significance in Quebec not being mentioned above, and I can’t help feeling that it seems rarely either applauded or derided here for its climate policies – if it has any.
(No doubt someone will point out the numerous posts involving Quebec whilst I have been asleep at the back of the class).
http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2018/03/gold-trail-school-district-74-anti-racism-campaign-poster.jpg?quality=60&strip=all&w=620&h=349
All this absurdity with gender politics leads to self inflicted reverse racism, sometimes by clueless white women themselves, apologizing for being caucasian. Women in Canadian cabinet didn’t honestly win the right to be 50% represented in the Cabinet of Canada: They were appointed out of sympathy and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna was one of them.
I am egogendric and I feel profoundly TRIGGERED by all the xhit I read in this article about all these inferior genres.
I have been saying it for years …the next Anti-Christ will be a women.
Won’t somebody please, please think of the furries?
It’s getting more embarrassing every day to be from Canada.
“Of course I am using the word transgendered in its broadest sense,”
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You just capitulated, you know that right ?
Climate Barbie. Another innumerate Lawyer in the Bold Tradition pioneered in Canada by Lucien Bouchard pontificating on Climate!!
Flashback 1988
David Suzuki was originally a fruit fly breeder before he became a journalist. So who does David rely on for sound scientific advice on fields with which he is unfamiliar. Well it turns out that one such scientific mentor was none other than Lucien Bouchard. Notice the dynamic : )
After that election, I asked the prime minister’s brightest star, Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard, what issue was most important for Canadians. He replied, “Global warming.” When I asked how serious it was, he said, “It threatens the survival of our species. We have to act now or we’re in deep trouble.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/12/09/this_guy_was_the_green_prime_minister.html
David Suzuki’s other Scientific Mentor was none other than Al Gore!
Forecast Earth In Depth: David Suzuki, Part 2
http://tinyurl.com/n3pkcun
I could only see this whole thread unfolding into a series of jokes, and so I have not read all the comments yet, but am skipping right to the joke that this story is.
Does “freezing one’s balls off” count as a “gendered impact “of climate change? If yes, then I am quite dismayed that the “gendered impacts” discussed above seem so narrowly defined (exclusively for women and children). Not surprised, of course, … just dismayed.
Perhaps this is my wake up call to get a sex change operation, since the parts that would be frozen by a climate shift toward cold would now no longer be an issue, and I could then join the legion vocal activists championing the causes of every nuance of modern sexual identity conceivable, excluding, of course, the traditional delineations [that’s just old fashioned, man … uh, … woman, … uh, … whatever).
Whatever the Canadian government says about the necessity of fighting climate change should be taken, not with merely a grain of salt, but the whole box. In order for it to meet its Paris commitments of reducing its emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, it would have to shut down the country’s entire electricity sector plus almost of its agricultural one. To reduce these emissions to 30% by 2030 would require the shutting down of the whole transportation sector plus 66% of the waste disposal. Considering Canada couldn’t come anywhere close to meeting its Kyoto pledges and finally pulled out of the whole deal in 2011, and considering that between 2013 and ’14 it reduced its emissions by a mere 5 megatonnes annually, it will again fall far short of any targets. A couple more things to consider: surveys show Canadians are 60% opposed to any carbon taxes and are making few moves to adopt Green technologies. So it’s obvious climate change is strictly a low priority item on the citizens’ to-do lists. In fact, most consider any carbon pricing as little more than a tax grab.
I would like to apologize as a Canadian for the pronouncements of “Climate Barbie”…not to insult the intelligence of all the Barbie dolls… She, unfortunately DOES represent the IQ of the current Liberal Government of Justin Trudope…Trudeau. We can only hope this is a one term Government.
I await a study on the negative impact on the environment by females….
[The mods are quick to point out that most males earn their money specifically to keep their families warmer, better fed, and more happy than if they did not work. The energy and money needed to keep the typical male happy (beer, a steak) is much, much less than that needed to keep a family happy (the rest of the budget). .mod]
A beer, a steak, a 60 inch HDTV.
Liberalism wherever it is is a social disorder. There are examples everywhere. Liberalism need to be capped, The media has raised it to a level of pure stupidity and the masses are ignorant.
Political stupidity is like a radioactive element. In small concentrations it does little noticeable damage. It needs to be concentrated to be hazardous. Or you can get a similar effect by being exposed to it for long periods—-like a carbon tax built into budget assumptions and spending programs.
Also, such liberal stupidity adds to the confirmation feedback to Xi and Putin to seize power for life. The chaos of real elections is deemed inefficient and dangerous.
Hadn’t thought of that. I can envision Putin sitting there with a glass in his hand, his feet up shirt half buttoned saying,
“See. Look what could happen if we let ’em decide for themselves. They blabber about freedom and try to justify the cost … but just look at the result. I don’t want that bitch in my face at any cost.”
In keeping w/the cultural marxism, Climate Barbie can’t be addressed as a she. So should it be “it”? I vote for she-it.
[And the mods vote for a very careful pronunciation of the phrase “she-it” in conversations. .mod]
Of course. Definitely two-syllables, w/a slight pause between. 🙂
“We need to consider the gendered impacts of climate change on women, girls and children. I am proud that Canada is training up women negotiators so that we have more female voices around the table”
First, show ANY real impacts to ANYONE.
Then you can break it down to specific harm groupings.
When you do it in reverse order it becomes obvious that you have no basis, and are just reaching for an undeserved sympathetic response.