Posted on 10/13/2020 2:27:55 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) There has been a "staggering" rise in natural disasters over the past 20 years and the climate crisis is to blame, the United Nations said Monday.
Researchers pointed to a failure of political and business leaders to take meaningful action to mitigate the impact of climatic change and stop the planet from turning into "an uninhabitable hell for millions of people."
Meanwhile, the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1 million people and infected at least 37 million, has exposed the failure of "almost all nations" to prevent a "wave of death and illness" despite repeated warnings from experts, the report said.
Between 2000 and 2019, there were 7,348 major natural disasters -- including earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes -- that claimed 1.23 million lives, affected 4.2 billion people and resulted in $2.97 trillion in global economic losses, according to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
That's almost double the 4,212 disasters recorded from 1980-1999, the UN said in its new report The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019.
**SNIP**
"It is baffling that we willingly and knowingly continue to sow the seeds of our own destruction," said UNDRR chief Mami Mizutori and Debarati Guha-Sapir of Belgium's Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, in a joint foreword to the report.
"It really is all about governance if we want to deliver this planet from the scourge of poverty, further loss of species and biodiversity, the explosion of urban risk and the worst consequences of global warming."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
If it means the U.N. goes away, it will be worth it.
And the ‘Big Lie’ about ‘global warming, global cooling, climate change’ continues on its merry way as democrats continue to try and get people to willingly give up their money to them.
JoMa
This reminds me of the promise of fusion power.
It's always "just 10 years away."
Countries with robust market economies have, so far, been spared that fate.
Regards,
They said the same thing in 1975, except it was the coming ice age....
The world a hell for millions? What’s that, like .1 %?
As we march forward, the carrot is now only 10 inches away.
They’re frothing at the mouth over the possibility that Biden gets in and the world gets distributed wealth from the USA’s taxpayers and Marxists dominate the world.
Our sun controls the climates of all its planets. Man cannot control the climates of our sun’s planets.
Man-made climate control is the next political hoax for controlling humanity.
By 11/30 the vast majority of Americans will have realized they’ve been had regarding the CCP flu. The DC and UN pinhead “experts” credibility has been completely lost. This is the same “highly educated” class of pinheads who’ve been peddling global warming for decades. At least in America, global warming hysteria is a non issue. More and louder screams of doom will be properly ignored.
...”Actually, the world is already an “uninhabitable hell” for “millions of people” - chiefly due to those millions suffering under tyrannical governments headed by dictators, most of whom call themselves “Socialists” and/or (in the case of the more-honest ones) “Communists.”
Countries with robust market economies have, so far, been spared that fate.”...
Very well said. Unfortunately, the US is headed that direction at breakneck speed. Government from the top down and one party rule will usher in what has happened time and time before in past history. Ignorance and the Godless affluence of the super rich are taking us there. Everything has become about money and power and the process of getting it through lies and manipulation of the populations, largely through corrupt media. Sometimes amazing people and amazing events occur unexpectedly. We hope and pray for that, but try to keep our faith in God to see us through life’s journey, no matter what happens, because whether the ruling class admits it or not, we do all have equality..We are all born and we all die...
...”Actually, the world is already an “uninhabitable hell” for “millions of people” - chiefly due to those millions suffering under tyrannical governments headed by dictators, most of whom call themselves “Socialists” and/or (in the case of the more-honest ones) “Communists.”
Countries with robust market economies have, so far, been spared that fate.”...
Very well said. Unfortunately, the US is headed that direction at breakneck speed. Government from the top down and one party rule will usher in what has happened time and time before in past history. Ignorance and the Godless affluence of the super rich are taking us there. Everything has become about money and power and the process of getting it through lies and manipulation of the populations, largely through corrupt media.
This whole “climate change” scam is the most elaborate smoke-and-mirrors operation I’ve ever seen; seemingly normal people who have much more immediate concerns are swept up in it (though I actually see nobody sacrificing any comforts for it). It seems a way for people to assuage guilt about other flaws in their lifestyles; regardless of what bad things they do, they “care about the environment” so they are “good people”.
Do? Let the world become an uninhabitable hell. That’ll teach unbelievers.
would affect “millions” is a world of 8 billion people. Statistically little impact.
Dictatorships starving their people in third world countries directly impact millions of people.
You can send food relief to these regions but their despotic rulers won’t let it get to the affected people.
The oceans were supposed to be dead by now, the population explosion was supposed to starve us all. Better kill your families and not propagate the species.
Make Room Make Room
Now eat your Soylent Green
Notice how they stopped talking about ozone holes 20 years ago...
I’m fine with it as long as its a per capita tax. $10 per head and how many people does China have now? 2.2 billion?
Of course; this whole thing is a sham that is a byproduct of “globalization” - as manufacturing heads to Asia, a few billion Asians are going to want cars, their own homes, families - so to head that off, we’ll take those things away in the West.
For years young Americans have been moving into cities; over the past few years as they’ve seen who really runs them, I’m sure that trend is finished.
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