Blog Action Day: Climate Change

Today is Blog Action Day! This year's topic is climate change, so we decided we'd take a look at why climate change is a feminist issue. Obviously climate change affects everyone, but we thought it was important to look at how it affects women and how we as women can help avoid making it worse. So we have compiled some of our favorite links, articles, etc. on the subject:

• How are Women Impacted by Climate Change by Masum Momaya - Takes a look at how women, due to their roles in families and communities, often bear the brunt of the impact of climate change.

• Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet - A series of short films on how climate change is already having a disproportionate impact on people in developing countries and is hitting women hardest.

• Climate Change is a feminist issue within India by Dr DK Giri and Patrick Koohafkan - Addresses how the fact that Indian women living in traditional communities are frequently pressured to into reproduction is both a women's rights issue and an environmental issue.

• Addressing Women's Vulnerability to Climate Change by Masimba Biriwasha - Focuses on the effects of climate change on women in parts of Africa.

• Global Climate Change: What Does it Mean for the World's Women? by Malea Hoepf Young of Population Action International - A discussion of how climate change impacts women and the poor.

• Women and Global Warming by Elizabeth Switaj - Global warming not only disproportionately affects women, but the same pollutants that cause global warming harm women before they reach the atmosphere.

• And of course, something to watch out for in the near future: Feminist Perspectives on Climate Change (Coming Soon!)