As of October 2022 the world faces major mega threats: monetary, social, political, geopolitical, environmental, health, trade and technology.
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'Mega threats' is a broad, vague framing with no testable threshold.
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Nouriel Roubini, “As of October 2022 the world faces major mega threats: monetary, social, political, geopolitical, environmental, health, trade and technology.” (said 25 October 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_8ea78872c74e, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8ea78872c74e
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