These are the biggest risks to society, ranked by the world's leading experts
Internally displaced flood-affected people take refuge in a camp at Kotri in Jamshoro district of Sindh province in Pakistan on Sept. 28, 2022.very year the World Economic Forum surveys more than 1,200 global risk experts, policy makers, and industry leaders to measure the weight of looming risks to global finance and stability over the next two and ten years.
Natural disasters and extreme weather events, along with a failure to mitigate climate change, made it into the top five risks for the next two years. Meanwhile, the top six concerns over the next decade involve a climate angle, assuming that number six—large scale involuntary migration—is considered a result of climate change as well as conflict, or indeed conflict caused by climate change.
The WEF’s poll respondents were probably not thinking about a shrinking Lake Chad when they fretted about the impacts of large scale involuntary migration, but such a movement could easily lead to risk concern number seven: erosion of social cohesion and societal polarization, also likely to be triggered by the impacts of climate change. Mitigating those future risks, whether in the Lake Chad Basin or even closer to home, requires action in the present.
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