United Nations claims ‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution’ WTF !!!


JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE, GMANews.TV
11/19/2009 | 01:19 PM

Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection," Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City.

In the Philippines, small brothels usually pop out near the coastal areas where many women do sexual services to transient seafarers. Often, these prostitutes are ferried to bigger ships by their pimps.

Based on the UNFPA report, there are 92 million Filipinos in the country as of 2009 and that number is expected to balloon to more than 146 million in the next 40 years.

Of the 92 million Filipinos, about 60 percent are living in coastal areas and depend on the seas for livelihood, said former Environment secretary Dr. Angel Alcala.

Alcala said that “we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of our marine environment."

But as the sea’s resources are depleted due to overpopulation and overfishing, fishermen start losing their livelihood and women are forced to share the traditional role of the man in providing for the family.

Alacala, who also heads the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management in Siliman University, said some women often pick out shellfish by the coastlines, exposed to storm surges.

Women who could no longer endure this work often go out to find other jobs, while some are tempted into prostitution, Alcala added.

In an interview with the Inter Press News Agency, Marita Rodriguez of the Centre for Empowerment and Resource Development, Inc. said women are taking the brunt of climate change.

"Aside from their household chores and participation in fishing activity, they have to find additional sources of income like working as domestic helpers in affluent families," she said.

The UNFPA noted that the temperature in the earth’s surface has risen 0.74 degrees Celsius in the past 100 years. The 10 warmest years globally since 1880 have also been recorded in the last 13 years.

“Slower population growth, for example, would help build social resilience to climate change’s impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse gas-emissions in the future," the UNFPA report said.

The UNFPA suggested five measures to mitigate climate change and overpopulation:
•Bring a better understanding of population dynamics, gender and reproductive health to climate change and environmental discussions at all levels;


•Fully fund family planning services and contraceptive supplies within the framework of reproductive health and rights, and assure that low income is no barrier to access;


•Prioritize research and date collection to improve the understanding of gender and population dynamics in climate change mitigation and adaptation;


•Improve sex-disaggregation of date related to migration flows that are influenced by environmental factors and prepare now for increases in population movements resulting from climate change; and


•Integrate gender considerations into global efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.


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Comment by Maas on November 20, 2009 at 1:11pm
LOL! As if something called POVERTY hasn't driven women into prostitution for centuries.

I seem to recall a silly article about global warming could cause terrorism.
Comment by Tara on November 20, 2009 at 12:39am
Just when you think you've heard it all......the global warming alarmists come up with something even more absurd! If climate change pushes poor women into prostitution, woudn't the majority of the world right now be whoring and a pimping? I love how they overgeneralize something like that and make being poor look like a crime!

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