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Humanity is suffering from a “broken perception of risk”, spurring us into activities and behaviours that cause climate change and a surging number of disasters around the globe, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. In a fresh report, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or UNDRR, found that between 350 and 500 medium- to large-scale disasters took place globally every year over the past two decades. That is five times more than the average during the three preceding decades, it said. And amid the changing climate, disastrous events brought on by drought, extreme temperatures and devastating flooding are expected...
