Once upon a time, linking climate change directly back to homosexuality was almost enough to get you sectioned. Remember 10 years ago, during the floods of 2014, when UKIP local councillor
David Silvester was widely mocked after writing a letter to then-PM David Cameron, warning that the bad weather of the day was due to Dismal Dave's acting "arrogantly against the Gospel" by planning to legalise gay marriage, thereby angering God Almighty and causing Him to unleash "storms, disease, pestilence and war" upon us all?
Today, the situation is kind of the reverse, and we are now exhorted to propitiate the angry climate-gods after all - otherwise they will punish those homosexuals who walk amongst us with terrible deluges and inundations of a new kind, as shown by the
Daily Sceptic reporting last week on a quite pathetic
story in the
Independent, headlined 'How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers'. As the
DS wrote, "Street-walking in a Muslim majority country undoubtedly has perils", but bad weather is not chief amongst them.
Rain of TerrorAccording to the
Independent, the problem was that "the rainy season was lasting longer" and "winds were stronger", causing clients to stay nice and dry at home and use prostitutes there instead. Even worse, 72% of transsexual escorts in the affected region "had increased expenses" when it rained - how much do umbrellas cost in Java these days? Therefore, it was argued, "climate change makes the vulnerable even more vulnerable". But does it really? If you bother to read the whole report beyond its absolutely mental headline, you will see that most of the ladyboys involved actually enjoyed a, um, happy ending.
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