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.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World