Global Risks Report 2019: 14th Edition

Source: World Economic Forum. Published: 1/14/2019. This 114-page report discusses current global risks, and how the energy now expended on consolidating or recovering national control risks weakening collective responses to these emerging global challenges. Chapters cover environmental risks, including extreme weather; and global transformations related to biological pathogens, which are detailed in Chapter 4: Going Viral: The Transformation of Biological Risks. It describes the changes in how people live that have increased the risk of a devastating outbreak occurring naturally, and the emerging technologies that are making it increasingly easy for new biological threats to be manufactured and released, either deliberately or by accident. (PDF)
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