Has the whole world lost its mind?

‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’

Joseph Holandes Ubalde is my new favorite journalist. He cuts straight to the propaganda.

The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.

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.

It's the perfect liberal calamity! Not only does"climate change" strike non-Western peoples with greater havoc, it's such a a perfect dream that it strikes women even worse. Here's U.N Bureacrat Suneeta Mukerjee's masterful logic:

“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.

It gets even better:

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."

Wait a second. If the carrying capacity has already been reached, then why all the fuss about rising HIV rates? Isn't the entire goal population control?

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.

Wait, I thought global warming and resource depletion was bad for women? Isn't the goal to empower women by destroying the traditional culture? Isn't empowering women a good thing? Now I'm confused.

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, which exposed to storm surges.

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

Who hasn't lost a job and been tempted to go in to prostitution Mr. Alcala?

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.

Of course, there's always prostitution.