{"id":455048,"date":"2026-07-11T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=455048"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:49:10","slug":"claim-climate-change-is-driving-child-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=455048","title":{"rendered":"Claim: Climate Change is Driving Child Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Maybe if mom or dad had a high income oil or gas job they wouldn\u2019t have to marry off the kids to strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topic:Climate Change<\/a>
By Claire Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Runa was 15 when she married a man she had never met before.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Cyclone Remal had ripped through her camp in Bangladesh\u2019s Cox\u2019s Bazar region, killing her family\u2019s chickens and ducks, which were the source of both their food and income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runa\u2019s mother, who had become the sole income earner after her husband died a year earlier, then lost weeks of labouring work due to the natural disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She could no longer financially support Runa, now 17, and her three brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe felt she had no choice but to arrange my marriage,\u201d Runa told the ABC.

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

Climate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to more frequent and younger nuptials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-07-10\/climate-change-leading-to-more-child-marriages-advocates-say\/106766756<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The problem is clearly economic hardship, not climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natural disasters may have contributed to that hardship, but fossil fuel driven economic development would help these people more than building a few wind turbines. Rich people don\u2019t have to marry the kids to strangers, to ensure they have enough to eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe if mom or dad had a high-income oil or gas job they wouldn\u2019t have to marry off the kids to strangers.<\/p>\n

The problem is clearly economic hardship, not climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":455053,"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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[691844018,691818512,691830226,691818056,691844019,691819287],"class_list":["post-455048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asia-and-the-pacific","tag-bangladesh","tag-child-marriage","tag-climate-change","tag-cyclone-remal","tag-el-nino-2","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Unu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":409181,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409181","url_meta":{"origin":455048,"position":0},"title":"Nonprofits Cruelly Normalize Poverty for Climate Virtue","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/20\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The last two decades should have been a period of accelerating economic development for Africa, South America and much of Asia. 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