Feminism: Destroying the Planet?

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Lots of people in the media—myself included—are getting really hyped up about global warming these days. All this talk about carbon-dioxide this and fuel-efficiency that. The level of collective anxiety is enough to make me go on a (locally grown, organic) potato-chip binge. Or something. But recently, the cheeky monkeys over at Cosmic Variance advanced a fascinating new theory: that feminism, not greenhouse gas, is destroying the planet. To support their tongue-in-cheek hypothesis, they used a cool new Google tool to build a helpful graph showing tons per capita of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere as a function of the ratio of girls-to-boys attending school in different countries. Where women are educated, they suggest, environmental destruction inevitably follows. Read it and weep. —Megan Miller

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Spoonman (imported)
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Prime example of how pseudo-science is allowed to gain acceptance with the brainless drones. It's a perfect dissertation showing how correlation DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION! Unfortunately, however, the fundies who run the US will find this article and use it as an excuse to issue burkahs to all of the women in the country.

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Megan (imported)
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I think it's abundantly clear that this is satire. Satire, people. Funny ha-ha. No?

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Sam Naga- Naga...
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This is obviously a joke. And a funny one at that. Calm down, people.

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Inti (imported)
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Is this serious? I can't belive it, sorry. I'm sure it's a joke, I mean, c'mon!

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Robin Goodfell...
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The conclusion is certainly a joke, but the correlation is not. Industrialization and feminism do indeed go hand in hand. I would submit that both enforce one another.

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Arvind Bhaskar...
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It appears to be funny but before rejecting it it should be thorughly re-examined by independent minds in the true spirit of science. If there is any co-relation the reasons for same should be examined.

Arvind Bhaskar

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Ian (imported)
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Wow, in light of this fascinating new research I'm going to have to revise my theory that the decline in Piracy is the primary cause of global warming.

http://venganza.org/

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J Moore (imported)
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100% of the people who ate carrots in 1860 have died. Therefore carrots kill you.

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FSM (imported)
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Pastafarians unite. We need pirates - and we need them in a bad way...

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M. Marcotte (i...
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Looks good enough to send to the media.

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