The World Economic Forum Global Risks 2013 report released Tuesday presents a stunning wake up call to the entire world.
The report begins with an unnerving theory that sluggish and stalled economies worldwide are a direct distraction from long-term environmental horrors." Global risks do not respect national borders," says Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.
"Two storms -- environmental and economic -- are on a collision course," says John Drzik, Chief Executive Officer of Oliver Wyman Group, one of several companies which collaborates with the Global Risks report. "If we don't allocate the resources needed to mitigate the rising risk from severe weather events, global prosperity for future generations could be threatened."
More than 1,000 experts and industry leaders took part in the survey. Researchers asked them to rate the biggest global threats in five categories: economic, environmental, societal, geopolitical, and technological. The following pages reveal the 10 Most Frightening Environmental Risks, based on the experts' responses. LINK
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