The UN global warming bureaucrats in charge of the hysteria section never run out of imaginative horrors being caused–or coming soon–by (now stalled) global warming. In today’s edition, it’s a cause of prostitution! From the story:
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. “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.
You can’t make this stuff up–unless you are a global warming hysteric. But then, I have concluded that one of the purposes of the agenda–beyond radical wealth redistribution and the institution of unaccountable global governance–is to set in motion perpetual growth of the international the bureaucracy sector. To do that, you need horror stories, the wilder the better.
Do you think I exaggerate? Check out the proposed agenda mentioned in the story to care for the global warming-caused problems of the poor:
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
Think of all the regulations the bureaucrats would have to promulgate! Think of all the bureaucrats it would take to monitor all of that–and that’s just a drop in the bucket of the bureaucratic tasks they have planned. Why, it’s enough to bring a thrill up the leg of the most dour international drone!
November 21st, 2009 | 5:40 pm
the UN is pressuring the Philippines to pass a “reproductive health bill” that would allow (force?) government clinics to give out (pressure women into) using birth control.
Hillary Clinton pressured the government last week too: in a country where graft is rampant, two terrorist movements are active, and “extrajudicial” killing occur weekly, her priority was giving women the pill (By the way, private clinics give the pill and condoms are sold in grocery stores, at the checkout counter next to the gum and batteries).
And when we had half a million people in shelters fleeing from floods in Manila, the UN was there, giving out a tens of thousands of health kits that contained condoms “because people in stressful situations might want to get close”. The story that mentioned this mentioned some women giving birth in the shelters at the height of the flooding, with only non sterilized scissors and no birth attendent and used that fact to justify the condom give away.
And don’t let it fool you: The morning after pill and abortion pill (Cytotec) will quickly become part of their agenda, as will teaching promiscuity in our schools.
November 22nd, 2009 | 12:44 pm
It is not global warming but overpopulation that is leading to this poverty and misery. I cannot understand what Nancy Reyes is thinking – denying birth control – so that families with nothing end up with six children?
I was in Philippines in the 1980s when the population was 60 million. Even then the population problem was obvious. But Catholic dogma controlled the politics. Now there are over 90 million people on those small islands.
Every nation – including USA – should have a ZPG “stop at two” policy to try to stabilize global population before it is unsustainable – if it’s not too late already.
I agree with the UN’s efforts to reduce population growth. but the part about global warming being a factor in poverty in Philippines is absurd. These conditions have existed for many decades – back to WW2 probably.
November 22nd, 2009 | 7:11 pm
Mr. Kim Berry wrote:
It is not global warming but overpopulation that is leading to this poverty and misery. I cannot understand what Nancy Reyes is thinking – denying birth control – so that families with nothing end up with six children?
I would point out that “families with… six children” do not have “nothing”; they have six children.
Although children require an investment of time and resources, they are a net asset to economic productivity. We humans are the ones working to solve these problems, after all – and what if one of those children were to be the one with the idea that leads to the solution we’re seeking?
I don’t get how so many Caucasians/citizens of wealthy nations feel so free to put the hate on children in emerging nations. In my view, all the “environmental degradation is caused by excess human population” arguments boil down to:
Just enough of us (read white or smart) people. Way too many of you (read brown or stupid) people.
November 22nd, 2009 | 8:29 pm
Kathleen Lundquist wrote:
“I would point out that “families with… six children” do not have “nothing”; they have six children.
Although children require an investment of time and resources, they are a net asset to economic productivity. We humans are the ones working to solve these problems, after all – and what if one of those children were to be the one with the idea that leads to the solution we’re seeking?”
Excellent point!
November 23rd, 2009 | 7:14 am
The proponents of “reproductive health” in the Philippines will stop at nothing to advance their cause; now it’s climate change they use to justify the need to “protect” women from pregnancy?
What pregnant women in my country need are more and better trained birth attendants, improved obstetric facilities and access to these attendants and facilities, and guidance in prenatal, postnatal and baby care. Instead, the backers of House Bill 5043 insist on condom, birth control pills and other contraceptives — and without giving complete and accurate information on the possible adverse side effects of these things. Plus, they propose to categorize these pills as “essential medicine.”
Imagine a society where parents are supported and educated on real responsible parenting, where every child born to families is welcomed no matter if he is the 4th, 5th, etc in the brood, where the government — instead of blaming the increasing population for poverty — channels resources to where these rightfully belong: in implementing livelihood/skills-training programs for the people, improving education, housing, supporting small- and medium-scale industries. That would be a step in the right direction. But no, the government insists on a bill that proposes government funding for contraception, mandatory provision of family planning services by employers, mandatory sex education (the values-free kind) in public and private schools from Grade 5 to 4th year high school, and penalties for any person and institution that speaks out against the bill.
And now we have “climate change” to think about, too.
November 23rd, 2009 | 7:39 am
Overpopulation is a long-debunked myth. Numerous studies (for example: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21622530/Demographic-Economic-Historical-Evidence-vs-RH-Bill) have shown that there is no causal relationship or correlation between poverty and population growth/density/etc. The real causes of poverty are economic mismanagement and bad governance.
Pushing contraceptives will only lead to more promiscuity and more unplanned pregnancies — precisely some of the problems we want to avoid!
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