As the “elites” plan their annual pilgrimage to Davos, the usual bleating about the failure to tackle climate change and environmental degradation dominate the ranking of top risks facing the planet in the next decade dominates a World Economic Forum survey.
They rightly assume that current-day challenges including the rising cost of living, persistent energy and food supply crunches and heavy national debts threaten to thwart the collective will and cooperation needed to address these problems.
We’re not fans of environmental degradation such as cobalt slave mining, pollution of the oceans, poorly managed forests, etc. but we can’t get worked up over changing levels of atmospheric plant food and cyclical weather events as the earth seems to handily deal with these variables.
Today we release our Global Risks Report 2023, produced in partnership with @MarshMcLennan and @Zurich.
— World Economic Forum (@wef) January 11, 2023
Read it here: https://t.co/sy3FmJ9aYW #risks23 #wef23 pic.twitter.com/WALqhQ4moP
Where in the World is George?
Due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict, regrettably I cannot attend the @WEF Annual Meeting in Davos this year as I have in past years. I plan to deliver a speech in Munich on the eve of the @MunSecConf. Details to come.
— George Soros (@georgesoros) January 10, 2023