The Cost of Extreme Weather: Millions Killed & Trillions Lost | Vantage on Firstpost

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A report by the World Meteorological Organization says that extreme weather events have led to over 2 million deaths and over $4 trillions in economic losses over 50 years. More than 90% of the deaths have taken place in developing countries. Asia and Africa are the regions most affected by extreme weather like Cyclones, Floods and Drought. ​

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19 Comments

  1. Mathew 24

    6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

  2. Start today in kindergarten to curtail wastage. People eat like piggies and waste food. Kids should be taught about all the drinks on super market shelves. Home made lassi and fresh juices will save the esrth from billions of cans and bottles which to process takes up the earth's resources. Maximum 2 pairs of shoes _ one for Sundays best. If kids can use paper it is better than computers as computers use a lot of energy. Trees that are felled, can be planted ten times over but computer chips only consume energy, batteries, electricity and the list is endless. Walking and exercising is better than gym and swimming pools! Kids can learn to segregate _ bin for green waste, bin for dirt (poop, body fluids, pads, diapers), bin for glass/paper/plastics (in other words easy to sort by so no human has to sort someone elses filth and each street should have a neighbourhood watch as crooks, thieves and spys are sprining up next door. The earth can then be a safe haven by the time these kindergartens become year six students!

  3. Instead of fighting the cold, heat, rain and snow, ancient man—unfazed by denial—and giving in to reason constructed dwellings and wore clothes in order to shield his home and person from the ravages of nature.

    Contemporary man—burdened by guilt—that has supplanted his intellect fights fire, having rushed to rescue each tree so that a belt cleared of forest does not surround town in order to protect it from nature taking its usual course of replacing the dead, dying and diseased with new growth.

    Better a town is reduced to ashes than to be characterized a denier.

  4. BS … there are fewer weather-related deaths overall as the decades pass.
    This century is vastly better than last: your either not honest, or lazy. Property losses maybe because the higher, better, land was taken long ago and poor folk move into risky zones – throw in growing resource costs and the money can appear exponential.
    This is fear-mongering and look like your wearing a clown nose.
    Yawn.

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