In December 2010, Associated Press published a striking article outlining the true strength of the environment.
Using an eye catching graph, the piece outlined how the devastating 'natural' events of 2010 - earthquakes, floods, heatwaves, landslides, etc - had killed more people than terrorism.
But not just terrorism for 2010, or for the last 5 or 10 or even 20 years. They had killed more people than terrorist attacks around the world combined - for the last 40 years.
In December 2010, Associated Press published a striking article outlining the true strength of the environment.
Using an eye catching graph, the piece outlined how the devastating 'natural' events of 2010 - earthquakes, floods, heatwaves, landslides, etc - had killed more people than terrorism.
But not just terrorism for 2010, or for the last 5 or 10 or even 20 years. They had killed more people than terrorist attacks around the world combined - for the last 40 years.
Some quarter of a million people were killed last year by natural disasters. 2011 has already started with the worst floods in generations in Australia, massive flooding in Sri Lanka and hundreds dead in mudslides in Brazil, to name a few.
But this edition of NATO Review tries to look beyond the major disasters and find out what climate change will mean for us on a daily basis in the future. And it finds that, even those of us living in less threatened areas of the world will be affected. And in a key way - food.
Less land and water could mean less food. And, as a scientific report commissioned by the UK government reported in January, this raises serious questions about countries' future ability to feed themselves.
We ask leading experts what this means for security, what is being done now and if the worst consequences can be avoided.
