Folks, it just doesn't get much loonier than this (troll Jason's comments excepted, of course):
The debate over climate change evolved into a battle of the sexes Monday at the 11th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal. The spokesman for a feminist-based environmental group accused men of being the biggest contributors to human-caused "global warming" and lamented that women are bearing the brunt of the negative climate consequences created by men."Women and men are differently affected by climate change and they contribute differently to climate change," said Ulrike Rohr, director of the German-based group called "Genanet-Focal point gender, Environment, Sustainability."
Rohr, who is demanding "climate gender justice," left no doubt as to which gender she believes was the chief culprit in emitting greenhouse gasses.
Of course, this is just the usual academic theorist with-nothing-better-to-do-than-think-of-dopey-scenarios swill, but the UN is actually taking this seriously:
... the United Nations has already begun to take the issue of "global warming" -- and the roles men and women play in it -- seriously, according to the "Gender and Climate Change" website.It is important for the U.N. "to integrate gender sensitivity into all mechanisms, policies and measures, and tools and guidelines within the climate debate," according to the website.
"In general, the Climate Change policy process tends to be driven by a masculine view of the problem and its solutions," the website explained.
The website calls for "a gender-sensitive criteria" for the Kyoto Protocol and for "global and national studies on the gender-differentiated impacts of global climate change, including a focus on gender differences in capabilities to cope with climate change adaptation, and mitigation are urgently required."
My God. This sounds like moron feminist college professors that ask students to do things like consider "feminine ways" of analyzing cell structure in biology class, or to consider the "hidden misogyny" in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (as noted in The Burden of Bad Ideas).
Somebody PLEASE find something for these people to DO -- PLEASE!!
Posted by Felix at December 6, 2005 04:17 PM | TrackBack
1972 (or 1974) Vega GT was my first new car. Four on the floor- had some pickup even for a aluminum-block 4 cylinder. Lent it to my brother and he wrecked it- only had one payment to go. Yeah, those were the days.
Posted by: AJ Lynch at December 6, 2005 05:39 PMAJ: I think you meant your comment to go on the post above...?
Posted by: Hube at December 6, 2005 06:18 PMHube:
Correct!
Sigh. I hate uber-feminists and global warming. It is like a perfect storm for me!
--rimshot
Posted by: Ryan S. at December 7, 2005 11:12 PMHube, all humor aside, I suspect that this scientist might be correct that men are greater culprits in the direct emissions of methane. Or at least that's the stereotype. Reminds me of the bovine flatuence studies - I wonder if bulls are worse than female cows in this regard?
Posted by: Chetly Zarko at December 9, 2005 08:00 PM