Flashback 2005: Men Warm Globe, Women Feel the Heat, Group Claims
Article below reproduced from 2005:
Men Warm Globe, Women Feel the Heat, Group Claims
By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
December 06, 2005
Montreal (CNSNews.com) – 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. “To give you an example from Germany, it is mostly men who are going by car. Women are going by public transport mostly,” Rohr told Cybercast News Service. Rohr was standing in front of her booth, which featured a banner calling for “creative gender strategies” from “rural households to global scientific bodies.” “In most parts of the world, women are contributing less [to greenhouse gasses],” Rohr continued. But it is the women of the world who will feel the most heat from catastrophic global warming, she said. “At least in the developing countries, it is women who are more affected because they are more vulnerable, so they don’t have access to money to go outside the country or go somewhere else to earn money and they have to care for their families,” she said. “What we are calling for is to take into account more of the social aspects of climate change,” Rohr added.
When Cybercast News Service asked Rohr if men should feel guilty for allegedly producing negative climate consequences for women, she responded, “No, they should change. I think [men do not] have to feel guilty, but it might help to take these [gender] issues a little bit more into account.” A spokesman for a conservative group attending the conference mocked the linking of gender to any potential climate change. “Nature does not discriminate between the sexes. The issue is absurd on its face,” Peyton Knight, the director of environmental and regulatory affairs at the Washington D.C., based conservative group, National Center for Public Policy Research, told Cybercast News …
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