KUALA LUMPUR — The world is set to face 1.5 disasters a day — 560 a year — by 2030, as humans put themselves on a "spiral of self-destruction" by heating up the climate and ignoring risk, pushing millions more people into poverty, the United Nations warned on Tuesday .
"The science is clear. It is less costly to take action before a disaster devastates than to wait until destruction is done and respond after it has happened," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The new UNDRR report said increasingly frequent and intense disasters have killed or affected more people in the last five years than in the previous five-year period, and could push an additional 100 million people into poverty by 2030.
Those countries already lose an average of one per cent of their gross domestic product a year to disasters — 10 times more than high-income countries, the report noted. "The most at-risk to extreme climate events and natural hazards are those living in urban poor communities, marginalised rural areas and isolated locations," she added.
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