Claim: Climate Change is Causing Domestic Violence
18 hours ago Eric Worrall 53 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
The husband wasn’t a sadistic POS wife beater, it was climate change which made him raise his fists?
Domestic violence is cost of climate change for Sri Lanka women
BY DIMUTHU ATTANAYAKE
THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Feb 15, 2024
SAPUMAL THENNA, SRI LANKA –
After years of scant rainfall in a remote region of Sri Lanka, farmer Renuka Karunarathna’s crops failed and as the family’s income dwindled, her husband took his anger out on her, beating her so badly she had to go to a hospital.
“I have got beaten up so many times,” Karunarathna told said in her village of Sapumal Thenna in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province. “I suffer a lot.”
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