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The world has been paying greater attention to reducing loss of life from disasters.
And yet, while mortality risk relative to population size is falling, the lives of more than 200 million people continue to be disrupted each year by disasters.
Moreover, as new drivers of risk emerge and interact, longstanding assumptions about disasters are being called into question.
Moreover, recent natural disasters have highlighted the importance of climate resilience as a means to improve quality of life.
Perhaps it would be better if the IMF’s 2006 report could be put beyond reach, behind a firewall or somewhere on the dark web, in an unindexed museum of forecasting disasters.
They are the ones responsible for providing safe water, garbage collection, safe housing, infrastructure, upgraded slums, protection from disasters, and emergency services when catastrophes hit.
These challenges are compounded by persistent debt and, for many countries, especially small island states, high vulnerability to natural disasters.
But after the disasters of the last two decades, including the military debacle in Afghanistan and the ruinous barbarity of the Chechen war which has blown back its violence into Russia's cities, ordinary Russians are less enamored of military might.
Adaptation to climate change is critical worldwide, but nowhere as much as in Africa, where exposure to natural disasters is higher than in most other regions.
And one must not forget the ever-present risk of natural disasters, exacerbated by climate change.
We have already experienced the onset of this misery in recent years, with a spate of devastating famines, floods, and other climate-related disasters.
According to the UN Charter, one of the organization’s purposes is to coordinate relief operations during and after disasters of a “humanitarian character” in which national authorities cannot cope on their own.
Other foreign-policy issues cry out for serious discussion and debate: addressing absolute poverty and pandemics in the global South; strengthening global governance, including undermanned and outmoded United Nations structures; international cooperation on the rising number of natural disasters; and rethinking Afghanistan/Pakistan with the understanding that Pakistan is far larger and one angry mob away from a loose nuke – and therefore should not be reduced to the role of a supporting actor in Afghanistan’s travails.
This combination of insecurity and natural disasters has displaced huge numbers of people and caused suffering on a scale painful to behold.
But a more intangible factor is no less important: many of the networks on which farmers have traditionally depended to cope with these disasters have been lost or degraded.
The truth is that economic policymakers are juggling sets of potential disasters, exchanging the one that appears most threatening for a threat that seems more distant.
On the Richter scale of drug disasters, the looming anti-depressant crisis appears to range between 7 and 11, where thalidomide rates a 10.
Iraq’s Refugee CrisisAmong the many humanitarian disasters produced by the civil war now raging in Iraq is one that is almost invisible.
Disaster-Proof DevelopmentNEW YORK – Over the last three decades, economic losses associated with natural disasters like floods, storm surges, hurricanes, and droughts have risen in lockstep with the steady climb in global temperatures.
When women run for their lives because of natural or man-made disasters, gender-based violence is one of the great risks they face.
Watch the Google Hangout with Joseph NyeHoping for the Best Against TrumpNEW YORK – Is there any reason for liberals to feel optimistic after a year of political disasters?
Homeless at HomeToday, the United Nations estimates that 77 million people – more than 1% of the world’s population – are displaced within their own countries, having been forced to flee their homes by armed conflicts, violence, urbanization, development, and natural disasters.
In the last decade, those displaced by conflicts alone rose from 19 million to 26 million, with millions more displaced by disasters.
The number of those displaced by natural disasters is rising, as the adverse effects of climate change continue to mount.
Nine of every ten recorded disasters are now climate-related.
So here’s the bottom line: conflicts will continue and natural disasters are growing in frequency and intensity.
Moreover, the four assessment reports that the IPCC has so far produced have allowed a better understanding of the threat posed by climate change in terms of extreme weather events and natural disasters.
There are four fundamental ingredients of such man-made disasters: repression of the market, suppression of information, systematic persecution of dissent, and attribution of blame for the disaster to the victims (which justifies radicalizing the policies that led to the problem in the first place).
American shame would be salutary if it led Americans to realize that they live in an interdependent world where nations cannot undertake unilateral military adventures without suffering unexpected disasters.
While horror-film music plays and clips of history’s disasters are shown on the screen, a voice intones, “Eighty years ago, George Soros was born.
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