Increasing Number of Global Natural Disasters

Increasing Number of Global Natural Disasters Honduras 1998 China 1998 Mozambique 2000 Correspondent: When your family has been buried alive and you’re left to dig up your dead the unspoken question on the lips of those left behind is why? It’s a question that echoes across every continent a disturbing and deeply relevant question that’s nagging at the mind of survivors, scientists and insurance brokers alike. The three fold increase in the number of natural disasters over the past 10 years has set alarm bells ringing even allowing for inflation, the cost of these catastrophe’s has risen 9 times over. The human cost are rising even faster and it’s the world’s core who are bearing the grunt of it, natural disasters are turning into overwhelming human catastrophes. Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century): We are seeing dramatic trends and natural disasters. We are seeing worst of the century, worst of the millennium or ones every thousand year events now regularly seemingly every other year on virtually every continent of the planet and bad as the losses have been recently is they can get much, much worse and will be.