UCLA Study Finds Gay Couples at Greater Risk to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change
“Same-sex couples disproportionately live in coastal regions and cities, which are more vulnerable to such disasters.”
IS this intersectionality? You have to admire the crossover of themes here.
The College Fix reports:
UCLA study: Gay couples at greater risk from climate change
A new study out of UCLA says same-sex couples are at greater “risk of exposure to the adverse effects of climate change” than straight couples.
These effects include “wildfires, floods, smoke-filled skies, and drought,” according to a report from KQED.
Same-sex couples disproportionately live in coastal regions and cities, which are more vulnerable to such disasters. They’re also more likely “to live in areas with poor infrastructure, worse-built environments.”
Washington DC, which rates high for “climate risks” such as heat waves, floods, and “dangerously strong winds,” has the greatest proportion of gay couples in the U.S.
San Francisco ranks second, and also faces a high climate change risk. According to KQED report, the city’s Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District flooded 22 years ago, “swamping” the entire area. The closest supermarket, Rainbow Grocery, also got flooded.
Ari Shaw, director of International Programs at UCLA’s School of Law’s Williams Institute who specializes in “international human rights, LGBTI politics, and U.S. foreign policy,” noted the study “cuts against the narrative” that LGBT individuals “have access to all the resources that they need.”
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This woke monstrosity will be one of the easiest papers ever to get published. It deals with gay couples and hypes climate change, and (most important) it shows that LBG******* people are getting hurt.
Send it to Science magazine. I used to take Science until they wrote an editorial saying they wouldn’t publish any papers whose results differ from the approved woke narrative. They’ll love this!
Ok..so they could, you know, move.
That’s like telling BIPOC people, who are “disproportionately represented in prisons,” that they could just stop committing crimes. Hater.!
So gay couples disproportionately live in some of the most expensive areas in the country…break out the crayons and help me to understand why I need to be worried about some of the most affluent couples in America and their “hardship” of say having a water view….
Yes, it’s just another excuse for privileging the coast over flyover country (red states). We’re supposed to freeze in the winter so they don’t have a couple inch rise in sea level at their waterfront properties. F that. We need to get the sea level rise done, so they don’t keep oppressing us to stop the inevitable.
The silly just gets sillier.
Couldn’t get past the headline!!! Liberal academics are insane!!!
I have it on good authority that homosexuals have been a flood risk for a very long time. The same authority seems to suggest that the homosexuality caused the flooding.
I’d take that claim with a pillar of salt.
They have my permission to leave Portland ASAP. I want nothing but the best for them, and if it happens to be in the center of the continent, I guess that i will just have to live with that. 🙁 On a plus note, they will be closer to the home of Bud Light.
Proving (again) these people cannot be parodied. The Onion The Babylon Bee or a college? Who can tell?
This is like saying people who consume large amounts of alcohol are at greater risk of becoming alcoholics. Nobody said that LG[yadda yadda yadda] HAD to live close to the shore. That’s a choice. I suppose if this group chose to live in forested areas, they would be moaning about being subjected to a greater danger of being burned out by fire. It’s not like everyone who lives near the shore has the same risks now, is it? And forget about the AGW garbage.