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The environmental damage influences people unevenly that “people with low incomes affected by such disasters have very little to fall back on: they lack insurance, savings, or adequate social welfare structures to cope with such dramatic events”(Dankelman, 2002) #ecofemsfu

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America has intended to control climate for military purposes is another example for “a marriage of masculinity, militarism and science” (Nagel, 2012) (Nagel, 2012). #ecofemsfu

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Women are playing essential roles in Inuit indigenous culture that they are capable of hunting, fishing, skinning, cooking. (Nagel, 2012). #ecofemsfu

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Women’s contributions are eliminated from official and academic documents and they are objectified as “as convenient sexual partners by many Arctic ‘explorers’” (Nagel, 2012). #ecofemsfu

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Armed male explorers has exploited indigenous knowledge while claiming their conquest (Nagel, 2012) #ecofemsfu

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“Although the percentage of women ministers of the environment has certainly increased, in CoP6 only 20 per cent of the delegates were women, and in the economic sector - where many of the relevant climate change decisions are made” (Dankelman, 2002) #ecofemsfu

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‘geoengineers’：People who imagine and design massive projects to alter the global climate and they considered themselves as scientific pioneers (Nagel, 2012). #ecofemsfu

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“The marriage of militarism and science is reflected in the history of both polar exploration and climate research. ” (Nagel, 2012) #ecofemsfu

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Gleick (2014) claims that “winter droughts are increasingly common and that human-caused climate change was playing a role”. People need more than money to make it alright #ecofemsfu

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Developing countries are more affected by climate change, for example, Philippines, Bangladesh, and the Caribbean (Dankelman, 2002) #ecofemsfu

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“Men are influential indetermining the causes of and responses to climate change through their domination of politics and policy-making around the world” (Nagel, 2012) shows that the power relations between gender is uneven. #ecofemsfu

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“A major problem for all NGO activities in the NGO Forum was the considerable physical distance between the forum and the official UN meetings, which made the official conference almost unreachable for most of the NGO activists. ” (Dankelman, 2002) #ecofemsfu

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https://t.co/hTLRG7oIZL warming never come alone but “with an observed and predicted increased intensity of hurricanes and associated storm surges to make coastal flooding a highly expected outcome of global climate change” (Nagel, 2012) #ecofemsfu

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Extreme weathers (higher maximum and minimum temperatures, and more hot days) and “More frequent precipitation, linked to warming, will cause increased flooding in some parts of Asia and Africa” all are consequences for global warming (Dankelman, 2002) #ecofemsfu

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“‘Doesn’t climate change affect everyone?!’ The answer to that incredulous question is ‘no’, climate change does not affect everyone equally, nor does everyone respond uniformly to climate change”(Nagel, 2012). #ecofemsfu

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Women deserve to speak out gender inequality via various channels!!!#ecofemsfu

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“Whether current conditions are evidence of humaninduced climate change, the indications for the future water resources of the Middle East and North Africa, including Syria, are not promising” (Gleick, 2013) #ecofemsfu

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“One effort to assess the economic risks to Syria of climatic changes linked downscaled global climate models, crop models, global economic models, and subnational dynamic equilibrium tools” (Gleick, 2013) #ecofemsfu

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“Researchers need to ask: What perspectives and plans will the United States and other national militaries and their organisational apparati bring to the policy table when planning responses to global climate change?” (Nagel, 2012). #ecofemsfu

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“WEDO runs programmes in the areas of governance and gender, economic and social justice, and sustainable development. Co-operation and networking in specific areas between local, national, regional, and international groups is very valuable” (Dankelman, 2002) #ecofemsfu