"21st World Conference on Disaster Management:
According to Lester Brown, the world is ill-prepared and may not survive an impending colossal natural disaster such as flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or recordbreaking heat waves that are triggered by climate change.
'At some point, these disasters will be unmanageable at the societal level,' said Brown, who recently wrote a book on the topic, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.
Furthermore, a number of recent weather-related incidents should act as a warning for the world to wake up and to spring into action.
For instance, Brown cites that one of the most troubling impending disasters is the current 'irreversible' rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet. If temperatures continue to rise, it is feared the ice sheet will melt completely and raise sea levels by a projected seven metres, which will disrupt rice production in the river deltas in Asia, where 60 per cent of the world's population lives.
Rising sea levels will also impact real estate values along coastal regions in North America and communities such as New Orleans, which has only since recovered from hurricane Katrina in 2005, will be threatened and could disappear, he added."
According to Lester Brown, the world is ill-prepared and may not survive an impending colossal natural disaster such as flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or recordbreaking heat waves that are triggered by climate change.
'At some point, these disasters will be unmanageable at the societal level,' said Brown, who recently wrote a book on the topic, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.
Furthermore, a number of recent weather-related incidents should act as a warning for the world to wake up and to spring into action.
For instance, Brown cites that one of the most troubling impending disasters is the current 'irreversible' rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet. If temperatures continue to rise, it is feared the ice sheet will melt completely and raise sea levels by a projected seven metres, which will disrupt rice production in the river deltas in Asia, where 60 per cent of the world's population lives.
Rising sea levels will also impact real estate values along coastal regions in North America and communities such as New Orleans, which has only since recovered from hurricane Katrina in 2005, will be threatened and could disappear, he added."
