This story was on Drudge yesterday and although most of it has nothing to do with the supposed millions of new refugees being created by global warming and the whole new push at the United Nations to recognize them as refugees who will need to be resettled (see our Climate Refugee category), I couldn’t resist posting this to show how nutty all this has become.
Entitled, ‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work,’ it begins:
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.
In the Philippines, small brothels usually pop up near the coastal areas where many women perform sexual services for transient seafarers. Often, these prostitutes are ferried to bigger ships by their pimps.
At the end of the article, there is a mention of the eagerly anticipated increased migration of refugees, and the UNFPA makes the following recommendation:
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.
Right! As soon as we figure out what “Improve sex-disaggregation of date” is, we will get right on it! Does it have something to do with more prostitutes?