Sigourney Weaver: Global Warming is Sexist - Improving Women's Lives Will Solve The Problem
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?
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LOL
Submitted by Matthew Sheffield on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:24pm.
One is reminded of the old joke about a hypothetical New York Times headline: "World to end tomorrow, women and minorities hardest hit"
Matt!
Submitted by Noel Sheppard on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:32pm.
Matt,
That's right! ns
Wasted your life? Just say you're an 'environmentalist'
Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:24pm.
I think it's high time that we air-lifted all of New York over to California, then saw California off and let the libs form their own country, 'Lib-opia' or something.
Since they hate flyover country anyway, why not just let them run their own country and let the people who love America rebuild it? They can make their own pro-gay, carbon-neutral, abortion-on-demand society where everyone uses only 2 squares of toilet paper per sitting, eat tree bark and dirt, and live in mud huts. They can crown Obama their king and spend their days making bad lawyer shows.
I guarantee they'll be begging to hitch a ride with the mexicans into America within a few months.
Ah, Weaver. Yet another celebrity who realizes she's sqandered her whole life pretending to be other people, and parroting lines written for her by movie writers who are far more intelligent than she is. Realizing that you've wasted your life? Just say you're an 'environmentalist'.
Libphalia
Submitted by GW on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 12:50pm.
My submission for the name of the new country.
Libostan
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 1:20pm.
Libostan
Actresses say stuff like this
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:29pm.
Actresses say stuff like this with alarming frequency, but we're supposed to believe that Sarah Palin is stupid?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Hey Sigourny
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:41pm.
Please stop trying to empower me. I don't need bastions of liberal women defending me and helping me out, because what you want isn't what I want out of life.
So please, take a hike already.
That is the equivalent of stopping all deforestation today.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:45pm.
What units of measure is that?
So sez the science fiction gal, Degrees in Ghostbusting, Avatar management, and Alien wrestling.
You Didn't Build That.
Poor woman...
Submitted by gAMEoVER on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:44pm.
has lost her mind. "who ya gonna call"
Still trying to get an answer to the obvious:
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:50pm.
The earth has gone through 6 ice ages. That's 6 times the planet has transitioned from hot to cold and back. All this before man walked the planet and burned his first piece of coal.
So during this current period, how is weather fluctuation caused by us?
'Women's health'=ABORTION.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:57pm.
'Meeting existing needs for voluntary family planning'=taxpayer-funded abortion.
Liberals can't tell the f*cking truth about anything.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
You really can't parody this
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:04pm.
You really can't parody this PC blather - it would fall far short of the reality.
You're right, Chris
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 9:35am.
It reads like an article ought of The Onion.
I can't imagine most anyone uttering this nonsense with a straight face, but I can accept that Weaver really believes it because so many denizens of Hollywood think this way.
By the way, I don't think that anyone would really argue that "family planning" in developing countries -- in other words, contraception and abortion in the Third World -- will reduce the global carbon footprint, if for no other reason than it results in fewer human beings releasing CO2 into the atmosphere through the simple act of breathing. But will that affect climate change? The AGW zealots says so.
Weaver's 'progressivism' shines through, true to the dogma of Sanger and company.
"Women produce up to 80
Submitted by ant on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:22pm.
"Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in developing nations". So that means that women are responsible for deforestation for crop fields, evil farming corps. , pesticides and the like. Actually I thought seed and soil produced food, but, hey, if women are producing it, that's cool, they might as well produce something since Weaver, et al, don't want them producing offspring.
Right...
Submitted by proudamerican1990 on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:44pm.
First--- Now women are caregivers, when saying they are can help prove a point...
ANT--- good point, deforestation is definitely a factor in climate change... no trees to use the CO2
I'm all for empowering women, but then all the families they are providing are then going to go without food...
Unless the men go out and do the farming and stuff... Then, we are back in the same boat
And And And
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:51pm.
...found that simply by meeting women's existing needs for voluntary family planning...
Hey, you said women's also take care of others.
...women often look after the children, the elderly, and the sick...
Yeah, that too. So family planning won't help with that.
Time to Implement Code S.G.*
Let's turn the elderly and sick into yummy green crackers. That way women won't have to farm so much and have so many to take care of. Kill 2 birds with one stone. Dang, I is smart.
Thank me. Thank me now.
*Soylent Green
Nothing
Submitted by Brau on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:55pm.
In the movie Half Moon Street, Sigourney Weaver removed her top (while riding an exercise bicycle) and proved to the world what they already knew - she has nothing up top.
Today she proved she has nothing upstairs either.
Thanks a helluva lot Sigourney
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 12:07am.
Why do these actors insist on wrecking any enjoyment we've derived from their acting skills? I've liked Ms. Weaver in many of the parts she has played on screen - but now, anytime I watch her again, all I'll be able to think about is what a colossal moron she is in real life. The HuffPo should have posted a commentary from the Alien - it would've probably been more intelligent.
Just another boring, ignorant Hollywood lefty who is not a fan
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 12:23am.
of Sarah Palin. In an interview with TV GUIDE in 2008 Weaver said this about Sarah Palin:
At a Women of Hollywood Tribute in 2008, Weaver said (VIDEO) this:
Sigourney Weaver may be concerned that climate change exacts more of a toll on women, but what do you want to bet that Weaver is only concerned about the toll climate change has on liberal women. Women on the political right, such as Sarah Palin, can burn (i.e Global Warming) in HELL!what a dolt!
Submitted by scarletandgold on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 2:17am.
that creep is weapons grade crazy
I like that, weapons grade
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 8:45am.
I like that, weapons grade crazy. I was thinking more of Jimma Kotter stooooooopid.
Aw Come on HuffPo.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:12am.
Weaver had to have written this for a SNL skit, and somebody at HuffPo got hold of it and took it seriously. I like Sigourney Weaver and I don't want to believe she's that goofy. -bidn-
A waste
Submitted by hughglass on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 5:55am.
I always suspected this airhead to be a waste of a magnificent rack I was right.
Nature is cruel to women full stop.
Submitted by LaVallette on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 6:40am.
Research shows that more women die than men!!!
I told my wife she has to read this.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 9:18am.
She'll have to do it tonight though, as right now I have her chained out in the backyard thrashing wheat by hand.
Sigourney would have helped
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 9:25am.
Sigourney would have helped your wife but she was busy washing clothes against the rocks down by the ever rising creek.
Hahaha!!!
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 11:33am.
Damn, I'm going to have to get a new chair to replace the one I just broke from falling over backwards while flip-top head laughing!
So she claims that women are responsible for 80% of the developing world food production. I'd like to see her evidence because most of the farmers, cattlemen, butchers, other food production persons I've ever seen definitely exceed 20% of the total.
The not so subtle context of this dual purpose feminist/climate change drivel? Women continue to be oppressed and weak and haven't reached an acceptable level of empowerment. Pahleeez! Sigourney, meet Mrs. Schlafly. Cleanup on aisle 3! Ms. Weaver just exploded!
She appears to be a little slow on the uptake as well. Hasn't global warming been retrofitted to climate change?
God I hope I never develop an obsession to remain relevant.
Meteorologist Rosie O’Donnell: Gobal Warming Cause Tornadoes!
Submitted by HollyW on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:09am.
According to the Daily Rash, meteorologist Rosie O'Donnell has confirmed that global warming is causing deadly tornado activity. http://www.thedailyrash.com/?p=7019 Luckily Hollywood is performing the scientific studies that prove we're all about to die.
Tell me more Ripley
Submitted by zachlind on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:48am.
I think she’s sleeping with that Alien thing again. They’re hell on brain cells.
Off Script
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 11:15am.
Actors get into trouble and say dumb things when they have no lines to read. Just stick to your script and you'll do just fine.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Sigourney was once a decent actress
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:35am.
and not bad looking, but geez, Louise,,your careers in the toilet, your looks have left you, and apparently your brain is long retired! Just go crawl back up into your Upper East Side Dee-luxe Apt in the sky-eye and move on out, you rich, dumb bitch!
A bony skank.
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:36am.
nothing more.
So fictitious global warming
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 12:09pm.
So fictitious global warming is more harmful to women than having power devices and electricity so they don't have to slave over ovens and furnaces and fires that give them lung cancer and other diseases? Yeah, you're a real women supporter Weaver. Just go buy some carbon credits and sit in the corner until an intelligent thought enters your head.
Irony for Zuul from Ghostbusters:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 9:28pm.
Is she really implying that MOTHER NATURE is actually sexist against women? Wow. She really is dumb.
The Ghostbusters screwed up!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:33am.
They should have let Zuul take her away, w/o Gozar!
Steroids
Submitted by david999 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:57pm.
This must be the result of taking too many steroids when she bulked up for the Alien movies.