Feminism: Destroying the Planet?
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| Courtesy Radicalgraphics.org |
Lots of people in the media—myself included—are getting really hyped up about global warming these days. All this talk about carbon-dioxide this and fuel-efficiency that. The level of collective anxiety is enough to make me go on a (locally grown, organic) potato-chip binge. Or something. But recently, the cheeky monkeys over at Cosmic Variance advanced a fascinating new theory: that feminism, not greenhouse gas, is destroying the planet. To support their tongue-in-cheek hypothesis, they used a cool new Google tool to build a helpful graph showing tons per capita of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere as a function of the ratio of girls-to-boys attending school in different countries. Where women are educated, they suggest, environmental destruction inevitably follows. Read it and weep. —Megan Miller
Prime example of how pseudo-science is allowed to gain acceptance with the brainless drones. It's a perfect dissertation showing how correlation DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION! Unfortunately, however, the fundies who run the US will find this article and use it as an excuse to issue burkahs to all of the women in the country.
Posted by: Spoonman | June 06, 2006 at 04:35 PM
I think it's abundantly clear that this is satire. Satire, people. Funny ha-ha. No?
Posted by: Megan | June 06, 2006 at 05:08 PM
This is obviously a joke. And a funny one at that. Calm down, people.
Posted by: Sam Naga- Naga- Naganaworkhereanymore | June 06, 2006 at 05:14 PM
Is this serious? I can't belive it, sorry. I'm sure it's a joke, I mean, c'mon!
Posted by: Inti | June 06, 2006 at 07:55 PM
The conclusion is certainly a joke, but the correlation is not. Industrialization and feminism do indeed go hand in hand. I would submit that both enforce one another.
Posted by: Robin Goodfellow | June 06, 2006 at 08:15 PM
It appears to be funny but before rejecting it it should be thorughly re-examined by independent minds in the true spirit of science. If there is any co-relation the reasons for same should be examined.
Arvind Bhaskar
Posted by: Arvind Bhaskar | June 07, 2006 at 03:48 AM
Wow, in light of this fascinating new research I'm going to have to revise my theory that the decline in Piracy is the primary cause of global warming.
http://venganza.org/
Posted by: Ian | June 07, 2006 at 09:15 AM
100% of the people who ate carrots in 1860 have died. Therefore carrots kill you.
Posted by: J Moore | June 07, 2006 at 09:50 AM
Pastafarians unite. We need pirates - and we need them in a bad way...
Posted by: FSM | June 07, 2006 at 11:23 AM
Looks good enough to send to the media.
Posted by: M. Marcotte | June 07, 2006 at 03:26 PM
This is obviously a joke! No way can feminism destroy the planet! We need to turn our focus back to the depletion of ozone! Maybe sexism is the cause of the depletion of ozone and not CFCs.
Posted by: Lauren | June 07, 2006 at 09:59 PM
Go to www.bts.gov (bureau of transportation statistics). You will find some interesting numbers:
Women on average drive nearly twice as many miles per day as men. Women drive for nearly 50% more minutes per day as men. I haven't bothered to check the stats on licensed men vs. women in % though (I was looking up stats for something else and found that to be interesting).
Women ARE causing global warming (at a faster rate then men). Atleast in the US
Posted by: Patrick | June 07, 2006 at 11:33 PM
Statistics can be used to prove ANYTHING. This is just another example of that. E.g. Internet is the cause of global warming. Scince internet is here, the CO2 emmissions started increasing with every year the internet increases....
Posted by: lmgikke | June 08, 2006 at 04:48 AM
Uhm, the causality is interpreted backwards; Feminism is jusy another (negative?) side effect of global warming. Proving thereby that women only start thinking whent things get hot.
Great blog, beatiful example, keep up the great work
Posted by: Jasper | June 08, 2006 at 06:11 AM
Everyone knows the real cause of global warming is a lack of pirates.
Posted by: BluesFan | June 08, 2006 at 01:36 PM
pirates are the cause of GW, of course.
Posted by: THe gospel hath cometh | November 03, 2006 at 02:16 PM
I think this is very funny, but the sad thing is this kind of stuff isn't too far from what people will argue.
I get frustrated when I see poor science being used to justify inaction in the face of good scientific evidence that we need to do something about global warming and other environmental problems.
Posted by: Nathan - Learn 4 easy ways to prevent global warming. | January 23, 2007 at 06:11 PM
Sounds like there are more misogynists out there than I thought
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