Elite Ponder Threats to Globalization

World leaders meeting for the World Economic Forum have identified plenty of problems, but few solutions for global challenges. Risks to globalization include global warming, sharp inequality and increasing conflict. Yet the consensus on the list of challenges has failed to push leaders into action. A poll revealed that more than half of chief executive officers for major corporations express little concern over predicted rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and more extreme weather patterns associated with climate change. Some national representatives expressed a willingness to enact changes as long as access to energy is not disrupted. On climate change and other pressing issues, nations and corporations balk at taking the first step for any solution, unless competitors also commit to similar changes. – YaleGlobal