Climate change and pandemic the new terror

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown said yesterday that climate change and pandemic disease threaten international security as much as terrorism and that Britain must radically improve its defences.

Brown listed the greatest threats to Britain’s peace as “war, terrorism and now climate change, disease and poverty — threats which redefine national security”.

“The nature of the threats and the risks we face have — in recent decades — changed beyond recognition and confound all the old assumptions about national defence and international security,” Brown told lawmakers in the House of Commons.