Global Warming and Natural Disasters

torrential rain: Natural disasters including major earthquakes and weather-related phenomena suspected to be linked to global warming, such as torrential rain and flooding, occur with increasing frequency in various parts of the world, according to Asahi Shimbun. NEW U.N. DEVELOPMENT GOALS The two problems--increasing wealth concentration and growing threats from diseases and disasters--may appear to be unrelated at first glance. This shocking fact was recently reported by Oxfam, an international nongovernmental organization . The world is also facing growing threats from infectious diseases such as the Ebola and Zika viruses. But they are linked to each other through poverty. The situation is further accelerating the widening of inequality in a vicious cycle. With economic disparity and inequality growing increasingly serious, poor people are becoming especially vulnerable to the threats of diseases and disasters. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.