Sheelah Kolhatkar's latest New Yorker piece
Sheelah Kolhatkar writes about the P.G. & E. bankruptcy and more.
❝ On January 15th, the World Economic Forum issued its annual Global Risks Report, which presents the results of a survey of what policymakers and experts perceive to be the world’s greatest challenges and threats. The report categorizes concerns by color: blue for economic risks, orange for geopolitical risks, purple for technological risks, red for societal risks. This year, green, which denotes environmental hazards, was dominant: the top three risks, listed by the “likelihood” that they would occur, were extreme weather events, failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation, and natural disasters. (Threats such as data fraud and cyber-attacks appeared lower down on the list). “Is the world sleepwalking into a crisis?” the report’s authors wrote. “Global risks are intensifying but the collective will to tackle them appears to be lacking.” … [NewYorker.com]
| SHEELAH KOLHATKAR is a staff writer & financial columnist at The New Yorker, & author of the NY Times Bestseller, Black Edge. Watch her discuss robots, automation and the future of jobs in America on MSNBC below, and learn more about booking Sheelah for your next event today. |
