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Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue | Jess McCabe
The Guardian | Environment —
... with a message to a women's leadership conference, in which he acknowledged that women are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – and called for women to be given a greater say in tackling the problem. Of course, as this demonstrates, men are capable of recognising and acting on the gendered impacts of climate change, but the fact that out of 146 delegates at recent climate talks, ...
Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
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. And, she posited, this could be achieved by giving more women more autonomy over their own bodies, through improved access to contraception and abortion. I'm not going to get into the arguments around whether population control is a good solution to climate change . Others have already done so; George Monbiot's piece barely more than a month ago, for this newspaper, is ...
