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Climate Panic Jumps The Shark · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers. Nearly ninety three percent
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  of respondents saw decreased income during the rainy season. How climate change is hitting
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  vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers. What does that mean? I don't know.
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  I don't know anything anymore. The world doesn't make any damn sense to me.
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  Climate change is really hitting those vulnerable Indonesian transsex workers, aren't It's a
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  difficult time. It's a very difficult time. Let's see, Jane Nelson says,
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  clearly, Canadians haven't been paying enough carbon taxes. If only we pay
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  more, we could have made things life so much easier for those vulnerable Indonesian
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  transsex workers. Now apparently just had to check to make to make certain this
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  was a real story. It is no comment needed. Okay, let's check
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  it out. It really is a story. Life is getting so strange,
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  isn't it. How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian sex trans workers. I
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  don't know. I guess Greta was right. Huh, we better tear down
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  civilization. I don't know. What do you even do about this? More
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  neo pronouns? I guess will that help? They keep telling us about how
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  important they are and how they help everything? Okay, so Joya Patilla,
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  a forty three year old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing
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  weather patterns in the mountain ringed city of ban Dung were affecting her income as
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  a sex worker. A decade ago, the rainy season was lasting longer across
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  the West Java province, winds were stronger, and in some particularly bad years,
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  Patia lost up to eighty percent of her earnings. So it is hitting
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  vulnerable Indonesian transsex workers apparently, Like what about the rest of the sex worker?
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  They have to be kind of like it's they're not all trans like the
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  sex workers, right, what about the rest of them? Why do they
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  just ignore the rest of them? That's what I want to know. Trans
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  women like Patiha are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change,
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  as well as suffering disproportionately when disasters strike. They do they expect us
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  to take this seriously? Roague thought says, how does weather know their identity?
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  I don't know. It seems like a good question to ask. Let's
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  say, Uh, no one is coming out during the longer rainy season.
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  It is very hard to make money during that unpredictable weather. I guess they're
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  trying to scare us about climate change again. It just feels like this is
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  a bit of a miss to me. Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the effects
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  of climate change, and trans women, who tend to face more stigma and
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  marginalization than transmen are. Other LGBTQ plus Indonesians are also among those hardest hit
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  by extreme weather. That's because many trans women like Patiha are shut out of
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  the formal economy and survive as buskers and sex workers, occupations that rely on
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  them being able to solicit clients outdoor. Okay, I don't know. Okay,
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  you win, you win. We have to tear down civilization. Let's
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  all go live in caves again. Let's all go live in caves. I'm
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  gonna dig a hole in the ground. I'm gonna walk into the woods.
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  I'm gonna drive off into the mountains. Then I'm just gonna walk off into
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  the mountains and I'm gonna dig a hole and I'm gonna go live in it.
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  No electricity, I'll just leave my car. You know nothing. Now,
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  we have to save the planet. We have to save the Indonesian vulnerable
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  trans sex workers. It feels like maybe they got bigger problems in global warming.
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  I don't know. It feels like maybe I'm just not really buying this.
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  I understand they have to. There's somebody who you know. They're these
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  writers who have to just keep writing things to scare us about climate change constantly
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  all day long. It's all they have. That's all they can do,
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  right. They just have to be constantly their page to just constantly try and
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  fear monger about climate change all the time, and they've got to keep coming
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  up with new things. I just feel like this is a mess, that's
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  all I'm saying. I don't I don't have any any ill will towards the
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  Indonesian transsext workers. I hope that they get you know, I hope things
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  work out for them. I'll just say that, but I'm not going to
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  change anything.