Climate Change and the Female Population

[Uncle Joe]

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Who will Climate Change mostly affect?

Reports suggest that the poor will be the hardest hit; this will include the young, old and the female population – that mainly make up the majority of the world’s poor who depend on the natural resources that are threatened by climate change.

It is critical to recognise that all too often women experience the impacts of climate change differently than men. Women are often affected disproportionately due to gender inequalities.

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How does Gender Equality play a role in climate change mitigation?

In many countries, gender equality is still a barrier that needs to be addressed; women and girls are usually poorly represented when it comes to decision making. Addressing these issues gives a clear and well represented voice from the whole population so that all ideas can be considered in making decisions and policies towards climate change mitigation efforts.

A report from the United Nations Environment Program stated that men and women in their respective social roles are differently affected by the effects of climate change.

When a woman’s access to financial resources, land, education, health and other rights and opportunities is limited, her capacity for coping with and adapting to climate change suffers as well.

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http://www.emtv.com.pg/article.aspx?slug=Climate-Change-and-the-Women-Population-&subcategory=Top-Stories

[cprise]

1. Q: Does gender equality include aspiration--or austerity?

If its the latter, then I do not see the slowdown in birthrate lasting for very long.

OTOH, if its material aspiration, then that's its own kind of ecological disaster.

[Uncle Joe]

2. There are all manner of self-perpetuating loops in the equation of anthropological climate change

and it all spells ecological disaster in the grand scheme of things when certain tipping points are surpassed.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS SENDING AFRICA'S AGRICULTURE CRISIS INTO A TAILSPIN

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Agriculture in Africa is one of the most important yet underreported stories about climate change today. It's a fascinating intersection of science, politics, technology, culture, and all the other things that make climate such a rich vein of reporting. At that intersection, the scale of the challenge posed by global warming is matched only by the scale of opportunity to innovate and adapt. There are countless stories waiting to be told, featuring a brilliant and diverse cast of scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians, farmers, families, and more.

East Africa is already the hungriest place on Earth: One in every three people live without sufficient access to nutritious food, according to the United Nations. Crop yields in the region are the lowest on the planet. African farms have one-tenth the productivity of Western farms on average, and sub-Saharan Africa is the only placeon the planet where per capita food production is actually falling.

Now, climate change threatens to compound those problems by raising temperatures and disrupting the seasonal rains on which many farmers depend. Anindex produced by the University of Notre Dame ranks 180 of the world's countries based on their vulnerability to climate change impacts (No. 1, New Zealand, is the least vulnerable; the United State is ranked No. 11). The best-ranked mainland African country is South Africa, down at No. 84; Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda rank at No. 147, No. 154, and No. 160, respectively. In other words, these are among the places that will be hit hardest by climate change. More often than not, the agricultural sector will experience some of the worst impacts. Emerging research indicates that climate change could drive down yields of staples such as rice, wheat, and maize 20 percent by 2050. Worsening and widespread drought could shorten the growing season in some places by up to 40 percent.

This isn't just a matter of putting food on the table. Agricultural productivity also lies at the root of broader economic development, since farming is Africa's No. 1 form of employment. So, even when hunger isn't an issue, per se, lost agricultural productivity can stymie rural communities' efforts to get the money they need for roads, schools, clinics, and other necessities. "We only produce enough to eat," lamented Amelia Tonito, a farmer I met recently in Mozambique. "We'd like to produce enough to eat and to sell." More food means more money in more pockets; the process of alleviating poverty starts on farms.

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http://www.newsweek.com/africa-drought-food-crisis-climate-change-476753

I suspect impacts on male populations will be felt ever more as strife and warfare inevitably increase due to nations and groups fighting over diminishing resources combined with dwindling populations of women.

Warfare in itself accelerates anthropological climate change as great amounts of carbon are burned in the process of conflict.

Women, children, the elderly, the poor and physically frail or ill are canaries in the coal mine.

[Hortensis]

14. "Canaries in the coal mine." Very poignant.

If only. It didn't have to be this way.

Oh, well. How funny to be reminded that I'm physically frail; I don't feel frail, but I live in a hot climate with an autoimmune disorder and depend on air conditioning to keep the condition from advancing. When the power went off the other day, if it stayed off I planned to hop in the car and go shopping at a mall.

If I lived in so many other places, or some disaster hit here, the writing would be on the wall for me. Ultimately my death would be "temporally displaced" by some heat wave, like all the other canaries who can't handle it.

[Quantess]

3. Easy access to family planning is now more important than ever.

than ever. Hopefully women will choose to have fewer and fewer babies.

The last thing this earth needs is more humans.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Poverty leads to increased population and increased population increases poverty it's one of those

self-perpetuating loops.

Poverty Causes Population Growth Causes Poverty

Everywhere in the world, in every kind of culture, the poorest people have the most children.

Does having many children make people poor? Or does being poor make people have many children?

That is a hot question in the continuous struggle over how to spend foreign aid money. Those who think population growth causes poverty advocate programs in family planning and population education. Those who think poverty causes population growth favor direct economic aid, jobs, capital investment. Take care of development, they say, and the birth rate will take care of itself.

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If different investigators can take their different biases into in the same village and all find what they are looking for, maybe they are all right. Maybe the original question was too simple, assuming “either/or” when the truth is “both/and”. Poverty does cause population growth and population growth does cause poverty. Economic development means increasing control of both parts of the cycle; the ability to choose your family size, and the ability to make a living with something more than your hands and the hands of your children.


http://donellameadows.org/archives/poverty-causes-population-growth-causes-poverty/

http://rprogress.org/training_manual/20-PopulationPoverty.pdf

[Silver_Witch]

8. Ahhh I isee it it is women's fault....

If they would just stop having babies. No responsibility on the part of men eh!

Your mother did tell you that a man contributes to the Manning of babies didn't she. And you do know that severe provety limits her acces to birth control. And you know men still want to have sex with women evenif this y are poor and have no birth control right! Finally in many cultures woman do not have the freedom to say no!

So yeah let's blame population issues on poor woman!

[Quantess]

9. Having a bad day, eh? Sorry to hear it.

Nothing I wrote called for that hostile response. You seem to be reading quite a bit into my comment that just isn't there.

[athena]

11. Are you unable to respond to the substance of the post?

Whenever someone attacks another poster, as you just did, it shows that they can't actually respond to the substance of the post.

A mature response would have been to apologize for singling out women and to admit out that men are just as responsible as women for overpopulation.

[Quantess]

12. Are you so sure about that? Biologically, it all depends on the woman.

Is this a really difficult concept for you, that a female mammal (human) can only produce a limited number of offspring in her lifetime, while a male mammal (human) can father a nearly unlimited amount, depending on how many females he impregnates?

What I asserted before is what I assert now: Family planning is vital!

I apparently need to spell it out: A female can only have a few offspring. A male can have as many offspring as there are females taking in
insemination. Are you afraid of biology?

[Hortensis]

13. Quantess, access to good jobs and the hope

of achieving better lives for the children they already have or hope to have someday does far more than birth control alone ever could to bring birth rates down. Good jobs for women are the best birth control by far.

[The2ndWheel]

15. Which requires that much more in the way of resources

There's no out to climate change, or environmental issues. There's a downside to everything.

[Quantess]

16. WHAT did I say wrong?!

in the first place.

I'm like,,,, what revolutionary words did I ever say in the first place, for it to come to this??

[Quantess]

17. Not according to the yardsticks around the globe:

But we all have an unseaken obligation to be AWESOME!

[riderinthestorm]

4. K&R. SMDH...who could have predicted this...

[dembotoz]

6. seems these folks understand climate change much better than the gop

[Uncle Joe]

7. The GOP understands anthropological climate change, with them it's all about willful ignorance

motivated in large part by vast quantities of money supplied by the fossil fuel industry.

I believe, they; believe the Earth could use a population culling particularly of the weakest and "least desirable" elements and they're willing to gamble on anthropological climate change doing the job.

[jtuck004]

10. "a population culling particularly of the weakest " < They should be careful what they ask for, if

they are of the white skin variety. They might find they are the least resilient when they can no longer rely on their guns...