https://www.scmp.com/rss/321784/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The numbers don’t lie. Disasters are on the rise in Asia and the Pacific and they are affecting more and more people. In 2014, some 16.7 million people had to leave their homes due to disasters like floods, typhoons and earthquakes. Not only are disasters affecting more people, they are also more frequent and more severe. Sea-level rise, coastal erosion, desertification and storm surges tend to hit the poor hardest. Nobody wants to see entire nations uprooted but we have to face the unpleasant... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1885830/world-cannot-ignore-masses-made-homeless-disasters-amid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1885830/world-cannot-ignore-masses-made-homeless-disasters-amid?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Dec 2015 08:20:19 +0000