Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women

Mar 6, 2020
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Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is associated with an increase in asthma in adolescent girls, a higher risk of acquiring lung cancer and heart disease in mid-life, and heart attacks, strokes, and dementia in older women. And in the developing world where climate change is exacerbating poverty, women are suffering the direst consequences.