{"id":1750,"date":"2009-10-15T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2009-10-15T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:22:25","slug":"hot-flash-world-warming-up-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/10\/15\/hot-flash-world-warming-up-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Flash: World Warming Up to Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogactionday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog Action Day<\/a>. Theme is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogactionday.org\/en\/takeaction\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>. Here are a few things to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women die from natural disasters more. In the 2004 Tsunami, 80% of deaths were to women. In the 1991 Bangladesh cyclones, 90% of the 140,000 people who died were women. And in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005, African American women faced the most severe obstacles to survival.<\/li>\n<li>Women are 70-80% of the world&#8217;s farmers, and climate disturbances and drought are disastrous for them.<\/li>\n<li>Women in many developing countries spend three or more house a day fetching water: droughts intensify this effort.<\/li>\n<li>The impact of climate change is disproportionately affecting the world&#8217;s poor. Women are 70% of the world&#8217;s poor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Think about this. <\/strong>The reason to care about climate change <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> because it is gendered. Saying it is gendered isn&#8217;t a marketing gimmick to get you to care about the climate. But climate change is about the <em>social<\/em> world, and the social world is a place where men and women around the globe still have very different statuses and opportunities. The poverty aspect of it reminds us that climate change is a <em>human problem<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And do this. <\/strong>Be a human being. Take action to <a href=\"http:\/\/green.wikia.com\/wiki\/How_to_reduce_your_carbon_footprint\" target=\"_blank\">reduce your carbon footprint<\/a>. Take steps to raise awareness of the processes and impact of climate change&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noapparentmotive.org\/papers\/Teaching_Gender_and_Climate_Change_%28handout%29.doc\">see this for more info<\/a>. And let your members of Congress know that you want to see a strong version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/cleanenergyjobsandamericanpower\/pdf\/bill.pdf\">Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Bill<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2009-10-12-seven-reasons-for-optimism-about-the-senate-climate-bill\">some optimism<\/a> about it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>And, your bonus round<\/strong>&#8230;here&#8217;s some info for raising awareness of the processes and impact of climate change. Barbara Sutton, a sociologist at University at Albany, SUNY, put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noapparentmotive.org\/papers\/Teaching_Gender_and_Climate_Change_%28handout%29.doc\" target=\"_blank\">a fabulous list of sources<\/a> &#8212; books, fact sheets, articles, organizations, websites &#8212; on gender and climate change. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"..\/?page_id=31\">Virginia Rutter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Blog Action Day. Theme is climate change. Here are a few things to consider: Women die from natural disasters more. In the 2004 Tsunami, 80% of deaths were to women. In the 1991 Bangladesh cyclones, 90% of the 140,000 people who died were women. And in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005, African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}