"Climate change” and “child marriage” are “interconnected” issues, said Chelsea Clinton on Monday. Participating in a left-wing discussion panel framed as a meeting for “social justice,” she was introduced as an “activist, thought leader, and change agent.”
Using "climate change" as a euphemism for the narrative of anthropogenic global warming, Clinton framed the burning of fossil fuels as exacerbating other perceived social and political issues (emphasis added):“[We] carry multiple concerns in both our head and our heart.
Just listening to the concerns around education and climate change, women’s health, child marriage, access to technology, all of those are of course interconnected.
We have to focus on each of them in their interconnectedness.”
Clinton also suggested that President Donald Trump’s political ascendance was amplifying varying bigotries:
“We have to realize, especially at this moment, that sexism is not an opinion. Islamophobia is not an opinion. Racism is not an opinion. Homophobia is not an opinion. Jingoism is not an opinion. So I think that in our posture of listening, we also have to get comfortable with standing up and speaking out.”...
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