Due diligence requires that I admit to being a skeptic regarding most of the apocalyptic hysteria regarding the issue of climate change. I remember reading about similar warnings as a teenager back in the 60’s except, at the time, the magazine covers were all depicting a coming ice age due to global cooling complete with pictures of huge glaciers covering New York.
My personal skepticism aside, I did find the following statement by an official of the United Nations interesting when he claimed that Climate Change is now causing women who live in coastal areas of poor countries to become prostitutes thus increasing the rate of HIV infection in those areas.
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 this past Wednesday’s launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City in the Philippines.
According the Al Gore’s merry band of eco-alarmists temperatures are now rising; extreme stprms are becoming more frequent; the ocean levels are rising; heat waves are increasing; snow seasons are becoming shorter; our landscapes are changing; increased risk of drought, fire and floods; more heat related illness and disease; economic problems; etc., etc., etc.
And now the United Nations has discovered a causative link beween climate change and prostitution and HIV?
What's next? Climate change and its accompanying rise in global temperature will cause increased rates of alcoholism as more and more of us seek the climate controlled air conditioning of our neighborhood taverns?
Peter J. Mahon
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