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Climate change is a feminist issue | Mary Fitzgerald
Granting women control over their own reproduction would combat overpopulation and reduce carbon emissions When it emerged earlier this year that Obama's science tsar John Holdren had once, back in 1977, co-authored a textbook discussing possible methods of population control, among them ...
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Another week of GW News, November 1, 2009
A Few Things Ill Considered — ... aboriginal leaders] is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial: 2009/11/01: OilDrum: Tricking and Treating the Future 2009/10/29: CCurrents: Impossibleism IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again: 2009/10/29: CCurrents: Climate Change Is A Feminist Issue 2009/10/29: Grist: By the numbers -- data highlights on poverty and population 2009/10/27: Guardian(UK): Climate change is a feminist issue As for how the media handles the ...

Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue
Worldchanging: Bright Green — Women contribute less to global warming yet will be hit harder by its effects. Reproductive justice is a separate issue Last week Mary Fitzgerald argued that climate change is a feminist issue on the basis that population control is a way to prevent the situation spiralling out of control. And, she posited, this could be achieved by giving more women more autonomy over their own bodies, through improved access to contraception and abortion. I'm not going to get into the arguments around ...

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