Bummer: Carbon dioxide allegedly causes girls in Asia to become prostitutes, which causes them not to learn how to climb trees, which causes them to die in cyclones and tsunamis

Teen girls face heaviest risk from climate impacts - report - AlertNet

They found that when their families are stressed, girls are often pulled out of school to allow their mothers to go to work, or to get jobs themselves to help support their families - in some cases as prostitutes, particularly if the family’s survival is threatened.

The loss of education that results widens the already-existing gap in key survival skills between boys and girls. Studies have found that a lack of basic skills, like knowing how to swim or climb trees, puts women more at risk from disasters.

In fact, in Bangladesh, women made up 90 percent of the more than 138,000 people killed by a record 1991 cyclone. More than 80 percent of the victims the 2004 Asian tsunami also were women, according to the report.