How many human lives have been lost as a direct result of global warming over the past decade? Thousands? Tens of thousands? When extreme weather events result in natural disasters, we tend to immediately blame climate changes. We must recognize that increasing human vulnerability has played a major role in these disasters  For example, a flooding in Pakistan on 29 July 2010. The disaster was amplified by a number of human factors, including inadequate flood-control infrastructure on the heavily modified Indus river catchment, and the growing number of people living on the floodplain. As a result, climate change is not the only threatening issue facing humankind today. We also must address our increasing vulnerability to natural disasters, especially in the poorest regions of world.