“Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”
Recognizing the contribution of women and girls around the world, who are leading the charge on climate change adaptation, mitigation, and response, to build a more sustainable future for all.
Advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century. The issues of climate change and sustainability have had and will continue to have, severe and lasting impacts on our environment, economic and social development. Those who are amongst the most vulnerable and marginalized experience the deepest impacts.
Women are increasingly being recognized as more vulnerable to climate change impacts than men, as they constitute the majority of the world’s poor and are more dependent on the natural resources which climate change threatens the most.
At the same time, women and girls are effective and powerful leaders and change-makers for climate adaptation and mitigation. They are involved in sustainability initiatives around the world, and their participation and leadership results in more effective climate action.
Continuing to examine the opportunities, as well as the constraints, to empower women and girls to have a voice and be equal players in decision-making related to climate change and sustainability is essential for sustainable development and greater gender equality.
Without gender equality today, a sustainable future, and an equal future, remains beyond our reach.
March 8, 2021: A girl puts flowers at an installation of women’s red shoes displayed on staircase, as a symbol to denounce violence against women, at Durresi main square in Tirana, Albania on International Women’s Day. GENT SHKULLAKU, AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
“Few moments illustrate so perfectly the personal and political evolution of Arizona’s junior senator. When Sinema was first becoming active in state politics as a lefty political activist—she ran as a Green Party member and as an independent before finally joining the Democratic fold—she viewed Lieberman as the embodiment of Washington sellouts. As I reported in a profile of Sinema for the magazine, Sinema even protested outside of a Lieberman campaign event when the senator was running for president in 2003. “He’s a shame to Democrats,” she told a reporter from the Hartford Courant at the time. “I don’t even know why he’s running. He seems to want to get Republicans voting for him—what kind of strategy is that?” Lieberman, she added, was “pathetic.””
She’s despicable. Manchin is despicable. Our planet is literally burning to death. Americans are suffering in record numbers because of corporate greed and state-sanctioned police violence. Fascists are literally inches away from seizing control of the federal government.
Literally the only chance, the last chance, the best chance we have to do LITERALLY A SINGLE THING about any of this is now. If laws are not passed to address these things, it’s over.
I’m going to be fine. I’m rich and white and male in America. Nothing bad will ever happen to me because I live in a white supremecist, racist, oligarchy that privileges people like me over everyone else who isn’t richer than I am.
But people who don’t have my privilege are going to suffer. My children will suffer. If I have grandchildren, they will never know a planet that isn’t dying.
And all of this ALL OF IT is happening because of two people.
That’s it. Two people. Rich, selfish, sociopaths, who are willing to let the planet burn while they hold the door wide open for Trump and his fascists to storm in and take over the whole place.
When Manchin and Sinema completely destroy Biden’s agenda, when they finish jamming the knife as far as they can into the backs of the people who voted for them, it’s over. Forever. If it isn’t Trump in 2024, it’s someone just as bad if not worse. Women’s rights are gone. Trans rights are gone. It’s only a matter of time before they come for same sex couples. Every. Single. Thing. we have fought so hard for since before I was even born, all of it, is undone and gone.
And for what? FOR WHAT? Money? Attention? Someone explain to me like I’m five years old how these two people who are standing between Democracy and Fascism are totally cool with it.
I’m no political genius, but I can look at what Republican Fascists are doing in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Florida. I know what they want to do on a national level. There is no way Manchin and Sinema don’t know that. There is no way they don’t understand the stakes.
There’s no way every single member of the Democratic caucus doesn’t understand the stakes.
And it’s all going to fucking wither and die. For the greed, hubris, and inexplicable selfishness of two people.
I started this with a quote about Sinema, who was once a progressive activist. She called out Lieberman for what he was, and now that’s what she has become.
I sincerely hope that she wakes up at night, and can’t go back to sleep. I hope she sits there in the dark and stays awake all night, while the person she was screams at her and tells her that she’s a fucking sell out. She has betrayed and stabbed in the back everyone who worked to elect her, as well as the literal millions of Democrats in America who worked to help elect Biden and defeat Trump. But, based on everything I have seen of her, from hiding out in a bathroom to avoid constituents to flying around the fucking world for fundraisers while the entire future of America hangs by a thread, that she sleeps beautifully.
Goddamn her, goddamn him. All I can do at this point is hope that, somehow, after the Fascists take control, Sinema and Manchin are the first against the wall. In a just world, one of those Game of Thrones SHAME people would follow them around for the rest of their fucking lives.
When you remember that only a smallish proportion of the cost of dealing with climate change will be borne by governments, it becomes clear that this is not a choice between state spending on climate change or state spending on foreign aid and essential public services. It is a choice between state spending on climate change or state spending on coal, oil, roads, farm subsidies, environmental destruction and unprovoked wars. We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.
George Monbiot, Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning
It’s not too early to get organized for the GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE on Friday, September 20th.
- Scroll to the bottom of this page and check on Facebook to see if a strike has already been planned near you. - If not, you can create your own event. Check here for tips and advice on how to organize in your community, school and workplace. You can also download the FREE CLIMATE RESISTANCE EBOOKwith an introduction written by Greta Thunberg. - You can also use free graphics, banners, and posters to spread the word online (instagram, twitter, facebook, snapchat I guess?, whatever you use). Or make your own graphics and memes using their fonts and templates IN 6 LANGUAGES here. - Lastly, spread the word to your family and friends! Let’s make something happen.
It’s been a while Tumblr. Did you know I am working on yet another project? Protecting our environment and these vulnerable species is mission close to my heart. Follow along on my IG #OurVulnerableEarth2021
“… “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.
“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” …”
Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.
Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.
Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???
If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.
There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.
One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states arealong the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.
