Thursday, May 2, 2013

Climate Change Causes Prostitution

I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. The Los Angeles Times reports that Representative Barbara Lee, who represents Berkeley, Oakland and other parts of the East Bay, has reintroduced a resolution declaring that climate change - the new term for global warming - could force more women to become prostitutes.

The California Democrat and 11 co-sponsors introduced House Concurrent Resolution 36 that states that warming temperatures could push as many as 3 million people into poverty by 2050. Some of those people may be women looking for any possible way to provide for themselves and their children. "Food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy and poor reproductive health," according to the resolution. The document’s purpose is to call attention to the ways that women are vulnerable to climate change.

These people not only walk among us, they are part of the government that rules. What’s next? Maybe the old line, "WORLD TO END TOMORROW! WOMEN AND CHILDREN EXPECTED TO BE HARDEST HIT!"

Hey, I just report. And, shake my head in amazement.

PMO
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