What is the “new uncertainty complex” facing humans? What does the Human Development Report say about it?

Novel layers of uncertainty facing the world right now are interacting to create a “new uncertainty complex” never seen before in human history, says the Human Development Report 2021-2022 recently released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It explains that while humans have “long worried about plagues and pestilence, violence and war, floods and droughts”, three new sources of uncertainty have now stacked up, leaving us to navigate uncharted waters.  (Read More)