Premier warns on climate, disease
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that climate change and pandemic disease threatened international security as much as terrorism and that Britain must radically improve its defenses.
Brown listed the greatest threats to Britain’s peace as “war, terrorism and now climate change, disease and poverty -- threats which redefine national security.”
Officials estimate that a flu-type pandemic in Britain could cost as many as 750,000 lives, according to a report commissioned by Brown.
It also says major coastal floods probably would result in a military evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.
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