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Warnings World Economic Forum 2013: The world is increasingly

vulnerable
By Valentin Vidu

The world seems increasingly vulnerable due to risks related to the financial

crisis and natural disasters, Tuesday warns World Economic Forum (WEF) 2013
report on global risks, published in Geneva, according to AFP.
The risks related to the financial crisis "continues" divert attention "from climate
change, given that extreme weather events are ongoing," wrote the experts from
the WEF, which organizes annually in late January, the famous Forum from Davos.
This report is based on a survey conducted on a number of about 1,000 experts
and decision makers.
After a 2012 marked by Sandy hurricane and floods in China, the experts believe
that the increased emission of greenhouse gases is particularly worrying and
world denounces failure to "adapt to climate change", which involves
environmental risk whose "effects will be more prominent in the next decade.
According to Lee Howell, the WEF managing director and responsible for the
report, "national resilience to global risks should be a priority."
According to Axel Lehmann, who supervises the Swiss company Zurich Risk
Insurance Group, came the "time for action" because of "increased costs related
to events like Sandy Hurricane, of immense dangers targeting island nations and
coastal communities and the absence of solutions to emissions of greenhouse
gases ".
According to John Drzik, the general director of Oliver Wyman Group, an
international consulting firm, "two storms, one environmental and other
economic, will eventually collide, if you do not allocate resources to reduce risk,
increasing represented by severe weather events. prosperity of future
generations is likely to be threatened. "
Experts from the WEF also stigmatize a new phenomenon, known as "cyber wild
fire" Internet challenged by events as "a film critical of Islam on YouTube" that
translate into riots.
In a world where guards raditional role played by the media loses its important ",
it is necessary to reflect on the means of fighting these" fires ", says WEF.
Another risk denounced in 2013 by WEF health is marked by "antibiotic
resistance" that "may give a blow thanks to our health insurance system
emaciated".
Also in the world of health, WEF reveals spread of pandemics, "favored a hyperconnected world."

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