Climate change on society, gender, and culture

 Different genders, ethnicities, classes, and age groups are affected differently by climate change.

Climate Change and Gender: Climate change, including temperature rises and shifting weather patterns, can lead to water shortages. Women are usually in charge of fetching water or watering gardens. If the issue of water shortages continues, it will be difficult for women to search for another water source and travel a long way to fetch water, while some men might be indulging in their usual work routine.

However, to clear gender bias, some men play a more significant role and have more responsibilities than women during water shortages. Women are considered weaker than men; therefore, men have to travel a long way in search of a water source, while women are responsible for cooking and looking after children. Men have to bear the risks of wildlife intervention in their journey or other climate calamities. 


Climate change and culture: Water shortages cause various problems for communities in preserving their culture.

Culture: Agriculture and irrigation:

While planting, water is an important resource used. Without water, the community cannot perform rituals associated with agriculture, causing shifts in time and space. Planting, harvesting, and performing bring the community together through consulting on the division of labor and resources, as something as simple as not having water can lead to cultural loss. 

Building resilience: Traditional ecological well-being should be considered a means to make our community resilient to mitigate different kinds of challenges caused by climate change on different groups of people. Such as mitigating pollution through traditional beliefs and curing diseases caused by ecological crises through different medicinal herbs. 

In the process of policymaking, the government should include different genders, as they know best about how they are impacted and what should be done against climate change.


To understand cultural and social loss, we shall consider

Economic loss and Non-economic loss

Economic loss here refers to tangible loss that can be seen, such as low income.

Non-economic loss refers to intangible loss that cannot be seen, such as unstable mentality or cultural well-being that has been lost.



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