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Essay by Eric Worrall
As Ordinary Britons struggle with skyrocketing power bills and a cost of living crisis, the British Government is boasting of all the cash they are spending on gender issue trained climate mitigators in Mexico.
World news story
UK PACT helps mitigate the effects of climate change in Mexico
UK PACT supports coffee producing communities in Veracruz, Mexico with projects to mitigate the effects of climate change.
From: British Embassy Mexico City Published3 October 2022
UK PACT implements a project in Mexico to help coffee producing communities in the state of Veracruz to mitigate the effects of climate change, seeking to improve their quality of life through planting tree species that favour the conservation of the biodiversity of their ecosystems and that have a wider benefit for these communities.
The project consists in developing a methodology for the selection and agro-ecological management of species with high potential for carbon sequestration, as well as an effort to conserve the native tree species of the Veracruz mountain range. The project also aims to benefit the small coffee producers by planting trees that contribute to a higher quality of life for the communities, taking into account the possible utilities and cultural aspects of each species.
Before commencing activities, the implementing partners of the project received training on gender equality and social inclusion. During three days of participative workshops, two gender experts – from Mexico’s National University (UNAM) and the FCDO – led sessions around gender, the role of masculinities and about effective communication with a gender perspective.
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A key objective of the workshops was to raise awareness about the provisions established in British law, that oblige all international cooperation programmes to account for a gender equality and social inclusion perspective. As such, this project is expected to implement with the care of acknowledging the realities and perspectives of women and other vulnerable groups that participate in the cultivation of coffee. This has the purpose of making sure that the benefits obtained from this programme contribute to closing gender gaps and promoting an authentic inclusive economic growth.
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Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-pact-helps-mitigate-the-effects-of-climate-change-in-mexico
So Britons, next time you look at your pay packet in horror, or skip a few meals to pay your skyrocketing energy bills, you can be happy that your tax money has ensured that somewhere in Mexico coffee growers understand what a COP conference is, and can now list the 74+ genders they might encounter in their rural backwoods.
A dead fish rots from the head.
I’m guessing the Mexican coffee growers have to step away every so often as their polite snickering under their breath has to explode into uncontrollable laughter. It’s a new version of “Montezuma’s Revenge.”
So much of what is spent on higher education ends up as this. It’s where we really do need a “defund” movement.
Just stop drinking coffee.
It lacks a legitimate purpose,
“and other vulnerable groups that participate in the cultivation of coffee.”
These groups are mostly vulnerable to a bunch of British twits yammering at them
about “closing gender gaps and promoting an authentic inclusive economic growth.”
Think of the carbon footprint created by the airplanes required to get these lost souls from Britain to Veracruz to “help”.
There is a Monty Python sketch in here somewhere!
Mr. Smith – Why Mr. Anderson, why is time and money spent on this?
Neo – Because we need to justify the spending of funds or we lose our budget…
Might as well annex them as a Russian province now and skip all the paperwork.
I do hope the brave Ukrainians are not reading this.
Well, it is somewhat more legitimate than Feminist Glaciology?
ESG- Environmental, Social, & Governance- not necessarily in that order.
In the days when I knew people who were involved in trying to produce improved strains of coffee in Mexico and Colombia the priorities were increasing the returns to farmers through better resistance to frost and blight and better yields and better flavours that sold for premium prices. The research effort was widely welcomed by cafeteros.
This is a travestie (multilingual pun for those who speak Dutch).
Bring climate change on. I prefer my coffee roasted.
I’d be really embarrassed to be British, except that I’m so compromised by being a Canadian, with sweet cheeks Trudeau as my leader I can’t afford it.
I see no ESG Colonialism here Baldrick.
Try the other eye Blackadder.
Can’t they find something better to spend the taxpayer’s money on like team building exercises?
How about taking the whole office out for lessons on “How to skydive without a parachute.” There’s nothing like shared terror to boost team spirit amongst the survivors.
“role of masculinities”
The American Psychological Association says that traditional masculinity is characterized by violence and sexism. Also, “traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful.”
Got that? All you guys out there untouched by lessons in gender sensitivity are a living disease state. And so were 100% of your male progenitors.
This is exactly what Mexican coffee growers need to know to improve both their lives and the quality of their coffee beans.
Right.
With any luck, we’ve breached peak woke.
How about we just don’t import coffee to help mitigate “the effects of climate change” or will that offend the mocha-choca-frappa-chattering classes?
I’m confused.
As a person who identifies as male and heterosexual, does that now mean I’m now in a minority and can expect handouts to fund my lifestyle choice?
I am sure that Went over a treat in predominantly Catholic and socially conservative Mexico!
Mainstreaming Gender Into Foreign Policy
Volume 662: debated on Thursday 10 June 2004
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2004-06-10/debates/deb99458-c2b5-4ca5-9d17-8c3d55e6fd73/MainstreamingGenderIntoForeignPolicy
Spreading Tony Blair’s Values in Afghanistan
2004
We begin, my friends, with a visit to Afghanistan. What, you might ask, is the most pressing problem that nation faces at the moment? Perhaps it’s the millions of landmines scattered across the country, routinely blowing the limbs off young and old alike. Maybe it’s the fact that there are still 20,000 American soldiers tied up there amidst a rising death toll and allegations of torture at a detention centre at Bagram airbase. Could it be the fact that impoverished farmers have returned to growing opium poppies now the Taliban are back home in Tipton? And that cheap heroin will soon be back on the streets of Britain?
Nah, none of the above. Top of the priority list for the Foreign Office, and at our expense, is an urgent plan to offer counselling to Afghan tribesmen to help them get in touch with their feminine side. No, really.
This madcap scheme, backed by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, aims to address “gender issues” by having psychologists working with Afghan men who have trouble discussing their emotional problems.
“The patriarchal Afghan society does not encourage men to acknowledge or talk through difficult issues,” says a report filled with the kind of NuLabour speak you only find in the innermost pages of the Guardian or in cafes frequented by black, one-legged, bicycling lesbians. “This can mean they repress their problems and deal with them in inappropriate or anti-social ways.” (Apologies for the poor grammar.) We may be onto something here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040619213348/http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/funny/2004/06june/barry121.shtml
“You can be happy that your tax money…”
It ain’t my tax money. The government is borrowing like crazy. It is my grandchildren’s and unborn great-grandchildren’s tax money. (The largesse of the unborn is truly touching. You would think they would have spending priorities of their own when the time comes. But we somehow know they want to spend it on us instead. I’m so proud of their selflessness.)
If I was a Mexican coffee producer I’d tell them where they could shove their genders.
Veracruz has slightly more pressing problems at the moment you cretins.
While there are no doubt some good aid workers on the ground, the majority of the aid industry are woke leftie scum who through their stupidity usually make things worse. And that’s before we get to the luvvie wankerati like Geldof and Bonio.
They got climate change, gender equity and social diversity into the article but they left out first nations people rights which is a big no no … so send them back to re-education camp.