Posted on 05/20/2021 6:20:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Devastating storms and flooding forced people from their homes three times more than violent conflicts did in 2020, when displacements around the world reached its highest figure in a decade.
In a year marked with persistent violence in places such as Ethiopia, Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conflict triggered 9.8 million displacements of people.
But the number of times people were uprooted by disasters far surpassed that figure, at 30.7 million.
Together these factors brought the total number of new displacements in 2020 to 40.5m, a ten-year high, according to new analysis from the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Weather related events such as storms and floods were responsible for 98% of all disaster displacement, with geophysical events like earthquakes and volcanoes behind the remaining 2%.
Climate change has created the conditions to make extreme weather events more likely and more numerous, and is expected to increase future displacement.
The report warned against the idea that disasters were something that could be prepared for but not prevented.
And it sought to dispel the "misconception" that disasters were natural, saying human factors have a major role in how they play out.
It said policy tended to overlook that the fact that "exposure and vulnerability of people and assets plays a vital role" in whether a hazard becomes a disaster.
The figures refer to the total number of times people were forced to flee around the world, rather than the overall number of people.
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“refugees”
Many of them economic.
The question is this: Are disasters going up, or are conflicts going down? I think Trump really quieted things down.
FIX YOUR PICTURE!
We NEED to see Joseph Goebbels face associated with these dire warnings.
Ahhhh! We’re all gonna DIE!
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