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Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue | Jess McCabe
Women contribute less to global warming yet will be hit harder by its effects. Reproductive justice is a separate issue Last week Mary Fitzgerald argued that climate change is a feminist issue on the basis that population control is a way to prevent the situation spiralling out of control. ...
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Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue
Worldchanging: Bright Green — ... Swedish single households were 10,700 kg/year for men and 8,500 kg/year for women. So, yes, climate change is a feminist issue; women are on the front lines of climate change impact and need to be part of creating solutions. And women all over the world are in dire need of access to full and real reproductive justice. But linking the two by advocating population control as a solution to climate change isn't the way to achieve either of these aims. This piece originally appeared in The Guardian ...

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