Climate change has been accused of being “inherently racist” and “sexist.” It has been blamed for congenital heart defects. It now stands accused of another grievous category of misdeed. According to an op-ed in the Washington Post, if a man in a poor country brutalizes a woman, his victim could attribute her aggressor’s malice and…
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From Umoja, Kenya to India, climate change has led to domestic violence – The Washington Post
Lenaigwanai is one of the dozens of women who have arrived at the Umoja refuge in recent months fleeing violence that they say got worse as each successive year of low rainfall plunged their families deeper into poverty. Her semi-nomadic Samburu community of pastoralists are particularly vulnerable to drought because they depend on the livestock…
Can the use of compostable packaging reduce global warming?
Increasing numbers of ticks and mosquitoes transmitting illnesses. Heat and poor air quality aggravate heart and respiratory conditions such as asthma and renal failure. Hundreds of thousands of people die from malnutrition, diarrhea and heat stress. Climate change presents many threats to humans; increasing temperatures result in less food, extreme wildfires, droughts and at the…
