Women of the world on the front-line of climate change

As our species finds itself staring down the barrel at widespread environmental collapse due to climate change, some of us have more to worry about than others

Women from the Iraqi marsh areas
will be among the
hardest hit by climate change.

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In particular, the Middle East and surrounding regions have been shown to be particularly vulnerable to climate change effects, especially those having to do with water: Within the last seven years the region has lost enough water to fill the Dead Sea and by 2040, 14 of the 33 most water stressed countries on Earth will be in the Middle East.

Although Middle Eastern countries will be some of the hardest hit by climate change, there is a marginalized community within their borders which will be affected by climate change still more than others: Women.

Read the piece on Motherboard by Daniel Oberhaus - “Climate Change Is Killing Off a 5,000-Year-Old Iraqi Culture.”