Where Coffee Comes From: What People Are Getting Wrong This Week

This is not brewed from beans. Credit: Africa Studio – Shutterstock The 2024 Global Risks Report issued this week from the World Economic Forum named misinformation and disinformation as the greatest risk to humanity over the next two years. “People believing weird crap” beat “interstate armed conflict” (number 5), “societal polarization” (number 3) and “extreme weather events” (number 2) for the coveted title. The report warns that bad actors will use artificial intelligence to flood the world’s information channels with false narratives and propaganda, potentially affecting elections on a scale never seen before, leading to civil unrest, and encouraging Draconian…