Climate change causes child marriages
By Jo Nova
It’s a cult
The latest ABC headline tells us that Climate Change is becoming a *major* driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific. All those super cyclones and floods (that never used to happen) are killing the family chickens, see, and poor mothers can’t afford to keep their daughters.
And you, evil sod, who drives a 6 cylinder ute, are to blame for all the young women sold as chattel and denied an education 5,000 miles away. Every time you turn the air conditioner on, another young life is ruined. Obviously.
But let’s not mention the data — where here in the West, the more CO2 we emitted, the older our brides got. Shh! It’s just a meaningless correlation.
Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the PacificThe ABC tells us twelve million girls are tipped to become child brides this year. And child marriage is a global problem across cultures and religions, they say, helpfully not mentioning that there is at least one culture on Earth that hasn’t practiced arranged marriages for centuries. (And that would be the one that developed fossil fuels.)
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/07/climate-change-causes-child-marriages/
