Over 2.5 million people were killed in natural disasters that took place in the last 48 years, this planet as a reaction to climate change in this period, it said in a study cited in the online edition of the journal Russian Pravda.
â€The number of natural disasters has increased at least fourfold compared with the period before 1970, and while this devastation artificially increased over seven times for the same period,â€ said Rob Vos, Director of Policy Development and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United States. DESA report, recently presented at a UN conference, did not specify the causes that led to the intensification of extreme natural phenomena. The authors still leave the impression that this alarming rise is no stranger to global warming and climate change in decades. â€The consequences of these disasters are becoming more destructive and more countries see themselves powerless before nature unleashed. We believe it is imperative to create a foundation with a budget of about 4-5 billion dollars to help victims of natural disasters, of which most are in developing countries, â€œnotes the same Vos.
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