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Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk
Date 2016-05-23 05:09 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cities ?Woefully Unprepared? for Rising Disaster Risk
>> 
> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/cities-unprepared-for-rising-disaster-risk-20364
> 
> 
>> Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks
>> from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population
>> growth and surging migration put more people in the path of those
>> threats, the World Bank said.
>>
>> By 2050, 1.3 billion people and $158 trillion in assets will be
>> menaced by worsening river and coastal floods alone, warned a new
>> report from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
>> (GFDRR), managed by the World Bank.
>>
>> "Cities and coastal areas are woefully unprepared for the kind of
>> climate and disaster risk now facing our world," said John Roome, the
>> World Bank Group?s senior director for climate change.
 
What a steaming pile of doom and gloom nonsense.

 

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Jim Pennino

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Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 20:56 -0500
  Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-05-22 21:55 -0500
    Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-23 00:58 -0400
  Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-23 05:09 +0000
  Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-23 14:37 -0700
    Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-23 22:00 +0000
      Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-24 13:46 -0700
        Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-24 21:14 +0000
        Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:16 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-24 21:25 +0000
    Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 17:07 -0500
      Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-24 13:49 -0700
        Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:13 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:16 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-24 14:30 -0700
            Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:34 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-24 21:27 +0000

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