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Climate change has created a new generation of sex-trafficking victims
Quartz ^ | May 2, 2017 | by Justine Calma

Posted on 05/02/2017 8:43:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in November 2013, it was, at the time, the strongest storm in history ever to make landfall.

After the skies cleared, a second humanitarian disaster unfolded in a sports arena where thousands took shelter. An underground economy took root as women and girls were sold for food and scarce aid supplies, or trafficked into forced labor and sex work by recruiters offering jobs and scholarships. Kristine says she was sold to men every night; some of the men were foreign-aid workers, she believes. The men raped her, and took graphic pictures and videos. Kristine was 13.

As severe storms and rising sea levels wear down coastal regions, women and girls are at ever-greater risk. Climate change is a new push factor for human trafficking; its effects destroy livelihoods and place women and children in post-catastrophe situations that traffickers exploit.

As thousands of families cope with the aftermath of these storms, national and global efforts to address climate change are in limbo.

US president Donald Trump has threatened to withhold $3 billion the Obama administration committed to the UN Green Climate Fund, established to help developing countries like the Philippines adapt to the effects of climate change. As the one-year anniversary of the signing of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change approaches, it remains to be seen if Trump will follow through with his pledge to back out of the deal.

(Excerpt) Read more at qz.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climategate; globalism; hoax; sextrafficking; socialism
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1 posted on 05/02/2017 8:43:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So now sex trafficking and prostitution is blamed on global warming???

Is there any problem in the world which is not caused or magnified by global warming???

Do these people ever realize that they have become parodies of themselves????


2 posted on 05/02/2017 8:49:46 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change has also been blamed for the rise of Hitler and more recently, serial killers.


3 posted on 05/02/2017 8:50:02 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate Change - The universal boogie man that cannot be proven to even exist.

Climate Change is even responsible for baldness, insomnia and toenail fungus................


4 posted on 05/02/2017 8:50:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: nobody in particular
Climate change is also having an effect on my marriage.

I set the thermostat to 70, she sets it to 72...

arrggh..!!!!

5 posted on 05/02/2017 8:53:49 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Red Badger

The PI has always had nearly 14 typhoons a year. That just isn’t new. Lived there lived that.


6 posted on 05/02/2017 8:55:59 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Oldexpat

But these are BIGGER and MORE DANGEROUS typhoons because of Climate Change!.....................


7 posted on 05/02/2017 8:58:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

>> Is there any problem in the world which is not caused or magnified by global warming???

Ya know, now that you mention it, my draft horse has been farting a lot more lately.


8 posted on 05/02/2017 8:59:00 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Oldexpat

This just tells me they’s more than just drug traffickers needin’ killin’.


9 posted on 05/02/2017 9:03:00 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A (Not Quite) Complete List Of Things Supposedly Caused By Global Warming
10 posted on 05/02/2017 9:09:02 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kristine says she was sold to men every night; some of the men were foreign-aid workers, she believes. The men raped her

NO - rather, the UN and NGO leftists are "creating a new generation of sex-trafficking victims."

11 posted on 05/02/2017 9:09:42 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Its why “Climate Change” can be classified as a new CULT RELIGION.

it has all the attributes. Pagan ideology, earth worship, blind faith, a sinful man being punished for his wickedness....


12 posted on 05/02/2017 9:11:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Persecution of ‘deniers’ just like the Spanish Inquisitors.

Destruction of heretics and heretical materials...............


13 posted on 05/02/2017 9:13:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sex trafficking is caused by global warming...what’s next? The extinction of the dodo...?


14 posted on 05/02/2017 9:16:51 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Those crimes had nothing to do with global warming, and EVERYTHING to do with communist NGO people like those at UN Green Climate Fund.

American taxpayers should not be funding any NGOs, nor any religions group importing sub-humans into human civilization, nor any college or university that encourages uncivil behavior, nor any city or state that encourages illegal invasion.

15 posted on 05/02/2017 9:26:28 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Back in the 1700s and 1800s, before Global Warming took hold, prostitution was a lot less of a problem.


16 posted on 05/02/2017 9:44:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change is a new push factor for human trafficking; its effects destroy livelihoods and place women and children in post-catastrophe situations that traffickers exploit.

WOW!! We really need to start drug testing journalists that use High Capacity Transmission Devices.

This is bordering on INSANITY!!!


17 posted on 05/02/2017 12:36:08 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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So let me get this straight. We’re supposed to only care about sex trafficking if it can be tied into Global Warming where it will be 10,999th on the list to solve? Got it. Along with its a personal choice to be caught up in sex trafficking according to the depraved left.


18 posted on 05/02/2017 12:43:35 PM PDT by ssfromla (Free)
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To: Red Badger

Climate change causes......anything we need it to


19 posted on 05/02/2017 3:10:53 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: PGR88

They don’t want to tell the truth.. That it’s them creating them and condoning the behavior.


20 posted on 05/02/2017 3:16:57 PM PDT by Trillian
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