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This Week in the War on Women, 6/25-7/1/23: Women in Climate [1]
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Date: 2023-07-01
As I look out the window at the haze from Canada’s worst wildfire season in decades, despite our location in upstate NY being about 500 miles away from the nearest flames, I think “surely there are lots of women fighting this mess”. “This mess” meaning the climate crisis responsible for fires and other disasters.
And finding some of these female climate change leaders was easy:
Christiana Figueres has had multiple positions fighting climate change for decades. She currently is cofounder of Global Optimism, recently published the book The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis, is on several boards, and is chair of the Earthshot Prize Foundation. Whew! Just typing that wore me out. ;-) If you’re feeling pessimistic, read the above links.
(h/t America Adapts)
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is the coordinator and founding member of the Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad — AFPAT in French.
Hindou is a founding member of the Marrakech Platform for Climate Actions, she is a member of the technical and scientific committee of BIOPALT – UNESCO and also a member of the Executive Committee of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordination Committee (IPACC), where she is the focal point of climate change.
That is just what she’s doing lately. She has given multiple talks, written multiple papers, led multiple projects, and won multiple awards.
Sunita Narain is the DIrector General of the Centre for Science and Environment. She has worked on water management, tiger conservation, air pollution, and now climate change. She writes and edits, has worked with the Indian government, and received multiple awards including the “Water Nobel Prize”. She co-wrote Global Warming in an Unequal World: A case of environmental colonialism, which can be downloaded here.
A detailed look at the data presented by WRI itself leads to the conclusion that India and China cannot be held responsible even for a single kg of carbon dioxide or methane that is accumulating in the earth’s atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and methane are two of the most important gases contributing to global warming. The accumulation in the earth’s atmosphere of these gases is mainly the result of the gargantuan consumption of the developed countries, particularly the United States .
NOTE: Much has been made of Greta Thunberg holding her final school strike as she graduated high school this year. However, she founded the Fridays for Future movement in 2018, and the global and US movements are going strong. She is not quitting and the kids are all right. She just won’t be striking from school, since she is no longer a high school student.
If these women can do this much, surely the least you can do is stop wasting food! Or find another partial solution that fits your lifestyle. But we throw out about 1/3 of the food supply in the US! That equates to an extra 170 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which does not even count methane from food rotting in landfills, clearing of land for agriculture, nor inputs of fertilizer and energy on the farm. So at least do a good thing and save yourself some money. Win-win!
Plan ahead, provide for all! (h/t jtg)
In Other News
Stalking
Supreme Court overturns online stalking conviction, citing 1st Amendment
The majority raised the standard by which social media threats can be punished.
Weird ruling, weird division (7 to 2 — Barrett and Thomas!)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of an online stalker from Colorado, tightening the standard by which threats made on social media can be punished as crimes. -snip- In a statement on her website, Whalen wrote, in part, "I’m disappointed that the Supreme Court’s decision has minimized the harm that stalking and threatening messages cause to victims and their families. Nonetheless, I hope the standard the Supreme Court established can be used in ways that allow for the protection of victims across the country. If you are afraid, please trust yourself and reach out for help. The Court’s decision does not mean that victims must stand alone." -snip- [from the dissent:] "Counterman communicated true threats, which, everyone agrees, lie outside the bounces of the First Amendment protection," Barrett wrote. "He knew what the words meant. Those threats caused the victim to fear for her life, and they upended her daily existence. Nonetheless, the court concludes that Counterman can prevail on a First Amendment defense. Nothing in the Constitution compels that result."
As noted elsewhere, good luck getting stalkers to admit that they know they’re terrorising someone! Apparently that’s the new standard. SMH.
Sexual Harassment
UK
Tory hopeful accused of groping resists pressure to quit London mayor race
A former adviser to David Cameron is resisting pressure to drop out of the London mayoral race after the Conservative party said it would not investigate a claim by a TV producer that he had groped her at No 10 a decade ago. The Tories are facing questions about their vetting and selection processes after the allegations by Daisy Goodwin that Daniel Korski put his hand on her breast when she met him 10 years ago in Downing Street.
Abortion
Friday briefing: Life under an American abortion ban, told through one woman’s tragic story
In today’s newsletter: On the anniversary of Roe v Wade’s overturning, one woman tells her story of being forced to carry a baby to term:
For today’s newsletter, Guardian US’s Poppy Noor has spoken to one woman from Arizona who was forced to carry her pregnancy to term after the supreme court vote, despite having been told her baby had an unsurvivable medical condition. She watched her baby die in distress after two days. -snip- The doctor told me my daughter has Alobar holoprosencephaly, which basically means her brain didn’t split like it was supposed to, and it causes facial deformities. Her cleft palate was so bad they couldn’t even tell if she had a nose. They told me she wasn’t going to live, and I needed a termination – which, at that point, they told me I could get. And then Roe was overturned, and a 15-week ban sprung into action in Arizona, because it was no longer unconstitutional.
More to follow! More items will be added and then I’ll repost. But you can get started without me! — ec
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