Kelly Yu discusses natural disasters resulting from climate change, including severe heat waves, drought, and floods. The report highlights the negative feedback loop; climate change and the rise of temperatures increase energy consumption and power consumption to keep cool, leading to the worsening of climate change effects.
Despite the increase in disasters, the trend in disaster fatalities is improving as preparedness for disaster events becomes more commonplace. Yu uses the availability of earthquake kits in various locations as an example of this phenomenon.