Did you know Climate Change and Misinformation Dominate Future Global Risk Landscape, Says WEF Report
Every passing day our world is being exposed to new risks which pose
serious effects to people as well as economies of the world. Business,
academia and politics experts say that climate change is going to be the
biggest challenge in the world in the next 10 years. This was according
to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report,
which evaluated 33 global risks in the upcoming two years and ten
years. Currently, many perceive inflation as one of the world's biggest
issues, but the broader picture suggest otherwise. Experts say that the
biggest issue we will have to face in the next 2 years is disinformation
and misinformation (that is, spread of false or misleading information
to manipulate public opinion), followed by extreme weather events. In
the next 10 years, extreme weather conditions are going to be the
biggest risk faced by the world, that is according to the WEF report.
Misinformation
is still going to be a big issue in the next 10 years, but it will be
dragged down a bit by biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, critical
change to earth systems and natural resource shortages. Climate change
is going to have long term as well as short term effects all over the
world and it is raising alarms about how we are going to face this risk
in the future. In the upcoming ten years, most of the major risks in the
world will be environmental, while some will be technological and
societal.
If we talk about short term risks the world will face in the upcoming 2 years, extreme weather conditions and state-based arm conflict are some of the biggest challenges after misinformation and disinformation. In two years, the world is going to face all types of risks from environmental and geopolitical, to societal and technological. Societal risks are going to be a main problem in the next two years, with societal polarization, cyber espionage and warfare, inequality and involuntary migration and displacement being prominent.
