This document discusses natural trends including earthquakes, volcanoes, famines, diseases, and weather. It provides statistics showing increasing numbers of major earthquakes over the 20th century with more severe earthquakes occurring each decade since the 1980s. Famines and diseases are also on the rise with world population growth straining food production and diseases like tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS infecting hundreds of millions. The document notes increasing weather extremes including hurricanes, floods, and unusual winter weather occurring more frequently. Costs of emergency response to weather events in the US total tens of billions of dollars.