World ‘most dangerous since Cold War’ according to World Economic Forum

We live in an increasingly dangerous world, in which political, economic, and environmental threats are piling up, according to experts polled by the World Economic Forum.

Ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, next week, the group’s 2016 Global Risks report ranked the migrant crisis as the biggest single likely risk, while climate change had the greatest potential impact.

Sixty million people have been displaced by conflicts from Syria to South Sudan, pushing refugee flows to record levels 50% higher than during the Second World War.