Care about equality? You should care about climate change

Originally posted on www.theangrynipple.com in April 2019
Author: Briony Latter

The urgent issue of climate change finally seems be getting an increasing amount of news coverage and attention, which has particularly accelerated in recent weeks. To highlight just some of the recent reports on climate change, both big and small: world-wide school strikes, climate change programmes with David Attenborough on the BBC and Netflix, climate change anxiety, the impact on insurance, protests, a climate change chat bot, a call to incorporate climate change in to weather forecasts, natural climate solutions, a pledge by parliament’s pension fund trustees and water shortages in England. If you hadn’t been paying much attention to climate change beforehand, it should definitely be on your radar now.

As a visitor to this website, you’re probably wondering about the links between climate change and the issues that The Angry Nipple project addresses such as equality and gender. Here I’ll take a brief look at how climate change impacts can be felt unequally by different groups of people both in the UK and abroad, as well as providing an overview of the link between climate change and women. There’s a lot of information out there about this so I’ve tried to pull together a wide range of different examples and provide a broad overview.

So is there a link between climate change and women? The short answer is yes. However, this isn’t a simple relationship…