Is Minister of Environment insane?

[drummindiver]

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

[Boges]

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

[dialamah]

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.

[-1=e^ipi]

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!

[Moonlight Graham]

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.

[hot enough]

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. 

[drummindiver]

This is further proof that climate change is a political tool to be used by corrupt politicians against ignorant people.

[drummindiver]

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

[Goddess]

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.