drummindiver Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 (edited) Now climate change is gender specific. Can this get any stupider? Does anyone else think Catherine needs to sort herself? https://www.google.ca/amp/s/sec.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/minister-surprised-at-backlash-over-tweets-stating-climate-change-hurts-women-most/article30029885/%3Fservice%3Damp Edited June 13, 2017 by drummindiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boges Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 (edited) It's a wildly simplistic view. And certainly not applicable to women in Canada. In fact regarding deaths associated with natural disasters, the vast number of women in White-Collar jobs would indicate that they are less likely to face peril in those careers/lifestyles due to the weather. Like with the Gender Gap discussion, there are many other factors at play than Men = Evil, Women = Victims. Edited June 13, 2017 by Boges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialamah Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 19 minutes ago, Boges said: It's a wildly simplistic view. And certainly not applicable to women in Canada. In fact regarding deaths associated with natural disasters, the vast number of women in White-Collar jobs would indicate that they are less likely to face peril in those careers/lifestyles due to the weather. Like with the Gender Gap discussion, there are many other factors at play than Men = Evil, Women = Victims. I think there's merit in the idea that generally speaking and especially in third-world countries, women are disadvantaged in many ways and that climate change will exacerbate this disadvantage. However, I also think that who will get hurt worse is essentially irrelevant if climate change poses a big enough threat to essentially wipe humans out. So yeah, let's not get bogged down by details about gender disparity in the face of a life-threat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-1=e^ipi Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 Men tend to have a smaller surface area : volume ratio and more body hair. This means that men tend to be better at dealing with colder temperatures and women better at dealing with warmer temperatures. The idea that global warming disproportionately harms women is nonsense; the opposite is true. Yet to people like McKenna truth doesn't matter. The claim that climate change 'disproportionately harms women' fits nicely into the eco-justice narrative, so it must be true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Graham Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 8 hours ago, dialamah said: I think there's merit in the idea that generally speaking and especially in third-world countries, women are disadvantaged in many ways and that climate change will exacerbate this disadvantage. This is true. In many developing countries, women are often more vulnerable than men, economically, politically etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hot enough Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 8 hours ago, -1=e^ipi said: and women better at dealing with warmer temperatures. The idea that global warming disproportionately harms women is nonsense; the opposite is true. The comparison you draw is fatuous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummindiver Posted June 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 This is further proof that climate change is a political tool to be used by corrupt politicians against ignorant people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummindiver Posted June 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 McKenna, Gore, Trudeau, tons of altruistic politicians pushing thè Paris agenda. Here's why. (Takes a minute to load) https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yoKMBMPeNnGQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goddess Posted June 14, 2017 Report Share Posted June 14, 2017 4 hours ago, drummindiver said: McKenna, Gore, Trudeau, tons of altruistic politicians pushing thè Paris agenda. Here's why. (Takes a minute to load) https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yoKMBMPeNnGQ I'm just marking this to watch later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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