With the arrival of the pandemic, the risks that threaten the world seem to have become even more embedded in people’s minds and, in the coming years, climate change and its environmental consequences will pose the greatest threat to humanity.
The last three years have brought about various challenges for all of humanity; health, economic, environmental, social risks, etc. All this, derived from a global emergency that, even today, continues to cause various havoc.
Today, official figures speak of the fact that, throughout the world, There are more than 660 million positive cases for Covid-19, data that has occurred since the first infected was announced. In the same vein, more than six million deaths have been recorded.
In Mexico, currently, data from the health authorities detail more than seven million positive cases since the start of the pandemicof which there are 330 thousand deaths.
In a way, the emergence of Covid-19 brought with it a global thought about the future of humanity, which is why fears and great uncertainty inhabit today regarding what could happen in the world in the coming years. years.
The risks that threaten the world
On January 11, the new Global Risks Report 2023made by the World Economic Foruma survey in which 1,200 experts from around the world participated between September and October 2022.
According to what has been published, and as shown in the graph deposited above, global threats of an environmental nature are those that have been inserted among the main concerns of those surveyed.
In this sense, the failure of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, natural catastrophes and the collapse of ecosystems occupy the first four places based on the severity that they will have for global security by 2030.
That said, according to what the experts surveyed by the World Economic Forumthese emerging risks could lead to a “polycrisis” in which scenarios of scarcity of natural resources, geoeconomic conflicts, involuntary mass migration and social polarization converge.
And it is that, a fact to highlight is that, as a result of the pandemic, and the recent war between Russia and Ukraine, uncertainty and other fears awoke in the minds of a large number of people. even in his studio “How prepared are the governments of the world for another pandemic?”made by the OECD, in several countries there is greater distrust regarding the emergence of another pandemic. In Mexico, to give an example, less than 50 percent of those surveyed have full confidence in the authorities.