South Africa: "Climate change: Are women the solution?"

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-11-24 19:43

Article here. Excerpt:

'Johannesburg, South Africa - It is often asserted that climate change will affect women the most in the developing world. That's because most women will have to walk farther for drinking water, work harder to grow food, pull daughters out of school to help with family chores, and fuss more about family hygiene as the world – and particularly the developing world – becomes a hotter, drier place to live.

But women could also be the key agents of change that help countries to do a better job of preparing for climate change, and mitigating the damage.

That is the intriguing idea that comes out of a new report, issued Tuesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at an Arab League summit held in Cairo this week.

"We cannot successfully confront climate change if we neglect the needs, rights, and potential of half the people on our planet," said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the UNFPA, last week at the launch of the UN's State of World Population 2009 report, which is getting a second push at the Arab League summit in Cairo.'

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Admittedly, this is breaking news, likely to have been published prior to this article:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

Nonetheless popular press matras these past 5 years have repeated that climate change is:

1) harder on women, 2) forcing women into prostitution due to natural disasters and loss of opportunities, 3) may actually provide opportunities for women in some cases, and now 4) will be cured by women

all point to the same ridiculous point-of-origin assumptions that we have been battered with for the last 50 years about sex roles, gender-induced moral capacities, "inherent feminine virtues", and of course "patriarchal oppression". Now even Nature itself (or is that "herself"? No, a female version of Nature would not oppress women so... so Nature must be male... "Nature himself") is working all hours of the day against women, with absolutely NO effect at all on men. If it has any, it's positive. Well of course, Nature is as we now know, male.

Raise your hand if you are as sick of this horse-crap as I am.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2009-11-24 20:15