Sigourney Weaver: Global Warming is Sexist - Improving Women's Lives Will Solve The Problem

NewsBusters ^ | Noel Sheppard

[RatherBiased.com]

If you're like me, you've been waiting for feminist claims that global warming is harder on women and therefore should be a greater concern to the public.

Actress Sigourney Weaver of "Alien" fame did just that Thursday with an astonishingly ludicrous article published at the Huffington Post - a website rife with astonishingly ludicrous articles:

"You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat: that it would endanger men and women alike. But the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."

Yep. She wrote that. It's so absurd it's worth repeating: "climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."

How you might ask?

Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in the developing world. Drought and unpredictable rains brought on by climate change will make this work far more precarious. Women will have to labor harder and longer to ensure their families have food, fuel, and water.

Our role as caretakers puts us at even greater risk in times of extreme weather. Studies have found that women are 14 times more likely to die as a result of storms and other extreme weather than men.

Fourteen times! Why? Because women often look after the children, the elderly, and the sick, and that means we have less mobility in a flood or wildfire.

Shh. Wait. It gets better:

If you ask people the tools we need to stop climate change, most talk about wind and solar energy, fuel efficient cars, and biofuels. But there is another solution that is not so widely known: empowering women.

Yep. We can solve rising temperatures by - wait for it! - empowering women:

Two groundbreaking studies, one from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and one from the Futures Group, found that simply by meeting women's existing needs for voluntary family planning, we could reduce carbon emissions by between 8 and 15 percent.

That is the equivalent of stopping all deforestation today...Improving women's lives while curbing emissions offers another arrow in our quiver.

Yep. Improving women's lives will lower temperatures on the planet.

I wonder if Tipper Gore agrees with this premise?

[Mears]

And I thought Susan Sarandon was annoying.

[Grizzled Bear]

I wonder if Tipper Gore agrees with this premise?

Why? Does she need her second chakra (spelling?) released?

[rockvillem]

Logical extension of the old-time predicted headline: World Ends: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

Global warming deniers like me might have to recant - after all, the noted climate expert Sigourney Weaver has weighed in.

[Artemis Webb]

Sigourney Weaver is a good actress...
but she makes Ann Coulter look like a tub of lard. Seriously somebody needs to get that woman a cheeseburger with extra grease pronto!

[Ken H]

There is no Sigourney. Only Zul.

[NWFLConservative]

I think an alien has invaded her body and devoured her brain.

Just when you think a “celebrity” and she is a minor one at that, could not say anything more stupid, people like her lower the bar once again.

Honest to God, there has to be something in the water out in Hollyweird. Stupid potion number nine perhaps.

[Kickass Conservative]

Nuke her from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Since she is merely an actress and not a scientist, I would consider her article merely musings of another leftist fool who assumes that becoming a star anoints her with wisdom and intelligence.

[Artemis Webb]

Oh yeah...she was also the voice of the computer in Wall-E. I loved Wall-E, in part because I didn’t have to actually SEE Sigourney Weaver.

[bagadonutz]

This thread is useless without pictures.

[Artemis Webb]

Cheeseburgers
Donuts
Pasta
Pizza
That woman needs help !

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...but she makes Ann Coulter look like a tub of lard.

Methinks you've not seen a recent photo of Sigourney Weaver. She's far less...svelt than Ann Coulter.

[truthguy]

I knew a guy who went to college with her in the late 1960s and early 1970s or there about. He said she was very tall and only could possibly only look good with about 4 hours of makeup. Despite the fact she attended a prestigious University, the woman is a dumb as a box of rocks.

Every year that goes by I lose respect for American Universities. How can so many dumb and foolish people graduate from top notch (so called) institutions.

[max americana]

post of the night

[Artemis Webb]

Well bless her heart. She may be a lib but she looks better with curves than angles!

[max americana]

I’m rooting for the aliens now to eat her..

[familyop]

Only a few more years to go. Maybe there is a reason to try to live longer after all: just to see the world without the bizarre clucking from our rich and famous Baby Boomer peers.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

"climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."

Women and minorities hardest hit! lol.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !