Peer-Reviewed Study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 'challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest'

'For a million years, humans have been using the warming periods to advance civilization' -- 'Massive drought—driven by a 'little ice age' — lasted 300 years!

'Rise in disaster losses is mainly a function of more investments getting in harm's way as communities in places vulnerable to natural hazards grow'

'Droughts were the real weather killers, but thanks to green revolution in 1970s, people are far less likely to starve amid droughts. That revolution depended on fertilizers made from oil, writes Goklany, and irrigation, largely driven by fossil-fueled pumps, overcomes drought'