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PostJanuary 18, 2019

World Economic Forum Says Climate Change is Biggest Risk

Time to watch the foreign news reports. The World Economic Forum Report says that climate change is the biggest global risk in 2019, and the meeting, sans US reps, will be spending some serious time on this.

Article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sleepwalking-into-catastrophe-extreme…

Global Risks Report 2019 is here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2019

by Sarah Simon
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