{"id":302486,"date":"2024-02-17T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=302486"},"modified":"2024-02-17T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:34:42","slug":"claim-climate-change-is-causing-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=302486","title":{"rendered":"Claim: Climate Change is Causing Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Domestic violence victim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The husband wasn\u2019t a sadistic POS wife beater, it was climate change which made him raise his fists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Domestic violence is cost of climate change for Sri Lanka women<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY DIMUTHU ATTANAYAKE<\/a>
THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Feb 15, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAPUMAL THENNA, SRI LANKA \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of scant rainfall in a remote region of Sri Lanka, farmer Renuka Karunarathna\u2019s crops failed and as the family\u2019s income dwindled, her husband took his anger out on her, beating her so badly she had to go to a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have got beaten up so many times,\u201d Karunarathna told said in her village of Sapumal Thenna in Sri Lanka\u2019s North Central Province. \u201cI suffer a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domestic violence is a little-studied side effect of climate change, especially in poorer nations where increasingly frequent heat waves, droughts, floods and storms can exacerbate economic hardship, which in turn can fuel anger and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Sri Lanka has few detailed statistics on the links between climate change-related crop failures and gender-based violence, Rashmini de Silva, a gender and climate change researcher, said when basic needs are not being met, women can suffer physical, verbal and psychological abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are records of domestic violence where men beat their wives, when even the smallest issues in regard to buying food or expenses for children\u2019s education or farming have to be discussed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/world\/society\/domestic-violence-climate-change-sri-lanka\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m utterly disgusted by this attempt to excuse bullying and violence against women as a climate change issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is claiming climate change made someone use violence against his family any different from claiming the devil made me do it? The devil is the person inflicting the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason men beat their wives is they are useless excuses for men. They haven\u2019t got the guts to take on someone who can hit back. Even worse, the abused woman\u2019s brothers and father are too gutless to protect their sister or daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To try to use climate change as an excuse for such vile cowardice, all I can say is Sri Lanka and anywhere else which tolerates such behaviour needs to take a good look in the mirror, and stop making excuses for violent thugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural violence against women is fixable, either through legal changes or other means. Women in India, next door to Sri Lanka, finally got fed up with cultural tolerance of violence against women, and the refusal of authorities to act. Nowadays men in India who hurt women live in fear of\u00a0being beaten by stick wielding female vigilante gangs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m utterly disgusted by this attempt to excuse bullying and violence against women as a climate change issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":302489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I\u2019m utterly disgusted by this attempt to excuse bullying and violence against women as a climate change issue.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691819743,691826977,691826976,691826978],"class_list":["post-302486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-domestic-violence","tag-sri-lanka","tag-violence-against-women","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0o-VIOLENCE-AGAINST-WOMEN-facebook.jpg?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1gGO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":237865,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=237865","url_meta":{"origin":302486,"position":0},"title":"Wash Post: \u2018Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s no official data showing how extreme weather disasters affect levels of violence against women and girls in the Philippines. 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