We recently reviewed the top hazards for business travelers that indicates that petty street crime is a far more likely
threat than terrorism.
But an independent report commissioned by 20 governments in 2012 concluded that climate change already kills more
people than terrorism, with an estimated 400,000 deaths linked to climate change each year.
Counterterrorism costs a lot
more than terrorism: the tracking and elimination cost per terrorist is pretty high (mobilization, intelligence, means, waiting, etc).
Mr Blair has been seen as a strong supporter of the Kyoto protocol and was thought to be keen on working towards finding a successor to the treaty... As part of his support, the prime minister made tackling climate change his priority for the presidency of G8 and the EU this year, describing it as a greater threat to the
world than terrorism.
«Few crimes are more
detestable than terrorism, which intentionally murders innocent civilians to make a political statement.»
Though 92 percent of Americans support universal background checks, gun reform was a less significant issue to
voters than terrorism and the economy.
Is it important that our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, refers to man - caused disasters
rather than terrorism?
New York's other ex-mayor, Mike Bloomberg, believes Americans are facing an «epidemic of dishonesty» in the nation's capital that's a bigger threat to
democracy than terrorism or Communism.
All the while, pretty clever new ways are being found to stop inmates being radicalised during sentences for much smaller
crimes than terrorism.
As usual, leftie self - righteous here more concerned about what people are writing on
Twitter than terrorism.
Steve Kern, a 67 - year - old evangelical pastor, is the husband of state Rep. Sally Kern, who made national headlines in 2008 when she said homosexuals pose a greater threat to the
country than terrorism.
The Chief Medical Officer of Britain even warned that the ever - growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is becoming a bigger threat to world
peace than terrorism.
Dr. Qamar - Uz - Zaman Chaudhry, former director general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, calls climate change a threat greater
than terrorism for its ability to have a widespread effect on a country, even influencing economic policies and other plans for the future.
Tony Blair's chief scientist has launched a withering attack on President George Bush for failing to tackle climate change, which he says is more
serious than terrorism.
(Schwartz's 2003 report for the Pentagon said plainly that global warming would be a greater threat to national security in the 21st
century than terrorism).
He may mean more widespread impacts in the
population than terrorism, perhaps meaning diseases like Zika, etc., or storms like Sandy, that undoubtedly affect more people.
No political will to have pandemic preparedness be a campaign issue, yet a pandemic year from H5N1 is a bigger
threat than terrorism.
There are signs that the tide has already turned with a greater recognition that, even
more than terrorism and Middle Eastern instability, climate change can not be solved by unilateral action, even by the world's remaining superpower.
While he was U.K. science adviser, for example, David King famously said climate change was a greater global threat
than terrorism.
Warming devotee and former Chairman of Shell, Lord [Ron] Oxburgh, reportedly agrees with another rash statement of King's, that climate change is a bigger threat
than terrorism.
King once remarked that «climate change poses a bigger threat
than terrorism», that it is the «biggest challenge our civilisation has ever had», and that foreign spies and US energy interests were behind attempts to undermine public confidence in climate science and the attempt to build an international agreement at Copenhagen.
Ms. May claims climate change is a greater threat
than terrorism.
In February President Obama said, a little carelessly, that climate change is a greater threat
than terrorism.
The Voice of Russia today has a report titled Scottish in fear of bad weather more
than terrorism.
She's just throwing out some baseless generalities, you know, that all the troops that are returning really want us to take care of this problem because they know more
than terrorism, more than threats from other nations --
Tony Blair's science adviser has repeatedly called global warming a greater threat
than terrorism, but that hasn't been enough for Britain's Conservatives; the Tory leader (the equivalent of, say, Tom DeLay) rose last summer to excoriate Blair for moving too slowly on carbon reductions.