Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes About Jets

Quotes about: Jets

• More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Country, War

  "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide". Book by Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2008.

• Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Block, Moving, Ice

• The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Issues, Each Day, Labor

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.98, Vintage

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