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No one ever seems to talk about how the climate refugee-migrant problem has developed in part due to the religious/cultural attachment to patriarchal insistence on domination of women and large families, resulting in quickly increasing population pressure in many of the areas most impacted by climate disruption of traditional agriculture. When women have a chance to manage their own reproductive rates, they generally arrange spacing of children two or three years apart and limit the number of children they have. Evangelical and Catholic Christianity, and the more traditional Islamic sects, insistence that women should be submissive to men, and rejection of birth control results in huge families, inadequate or non-existent education for many of those children, and climate change related poverty and cultural disruption in a wide swath of Central and South America, Northern and Central Africa, the Middle East, and Southern and Central Asia.

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