The End of Development? 
Global Warming, Disasters and The Great Reversal of Human Progress

Authors/Editors: Jonathan Walter, Andrew Simms

Published by: The New Economics Foundation (London, UK) and Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 2002

About the Book

This booklet analyzes the linkages between global warming and disasters. Ignoring climate change related disasters may frustrate the Millennium Goals. Nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1990. The number of weather-related disasters has doubled in the past decade, affecting the lives of two billion people. Unprecedented floods have occurred in Europe and the Himalayas, Catastrophic droughts in Southern Africa and smog is South East Asia shocked the world. Pacific islanders are drawing up long term plans to evacuate. Global warming is gathering pace.  Scientific projections show that there will be more floods, more drought and more diseases. Sudden-impact hazards like tropical cyclones will also get more intense and frequent.