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.
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"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."
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Or, God.
God set the universe into motion, and it will all stop when He says, STOP.Not one second sooner, or later. Climate change is anti God.
Translation: Americans, please vote for Biden since he has a plan to help us control the planet, buy raising taxes, including a new UN Climate Change tax, so you’ll be suffering like third world leftist American cities...
Nothing that humans can do will affect the climate by even a fraction of a degree.
I seem to recall reading something within the last couple of weeks about it being back.
They said this and the end was suppose to be the year 2000
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