Disasters are becoming more frequent.
HUNGA TONGA-HUNGA HA’APAI, TONGA – DECEMBER 24, 2021: In this image 2. of a series created on January 19, 2022, Maxar overview satellite imagery shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on December 24, 2021,Catastrophe has become more commonplace, according to data from a new United Nations. Not only that, but humans are largely responsible for the increasing number of disasters, which are only going to become even more frequent, the report warns.
Looking back, from 1970 to 2000, the world averaged between 90 and 100 disasters reported per year, according to the report published today by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction . That grew tremendously from 2001 to 2020, to between 350 to 500 disasters a year.disasters caused by hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, extreme weather, crop plagues, epidemics, and more .
“At no other point in modern history has humankind faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards, interacting in a hyperconnected and rapidly changing world,” the report says. Human activity has raised the stakes of these disasters, the report points out. A hazard like an earthquake or a flood only becomes disastrousplaces that are in harm’s way — say on vanishing coastlines more vulnerable to storms. Human-driven climate change has also made nature’s wrath more powerful. Hotter global temperatures have made
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