What is the state of the world in this first month of the new year and where are things going? This global review of January 2023 looks at the key events and indicators across the globe this month. This special podcast will release monthly throughout 2023 as we seek to track the chaos with our monthly global review reports.
See the links below for sources and notes referenced in this podcast episode.
Global Review January 2023 – A New Normal
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs World Social Report 2023
- World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2023
- Oxfam Briefing Paper – Survival of the Richest 2023
- Red Cross Report – World ‘Dangerously Unprepared’ for Next Crisis
Weird Weather
- New York City Is About to Set a New Snow-Free Record
- ‘Feels Like Summer’ Warm Winter Records Set Across Europe
- Deadly Cold Grips East Asia
- Greenland World’s Second Largest Ice Sheet Records Warmest Temps in 1,000 Years
- Atmospheric Rivers Hammer California
- Flash Floods Rush Through Saudi Arabia
Economic Threats
- Egypt’s Pound Has Lost Half Its Value Since March
- Ghana Increases Salaries by 30% Amid Economic Woes
- International Monetary Fund Report on Inflation and Uncertainty
- Inflation By Country in 2023
- Why Are US Egg Prices So High?
- UK Cost of Living Crisis Pushes Mothers to the Brink
- Supply Chain Expert Warns Drug Shortages Are Not Going Away Anytime Soon
- Soaring Rice Prices Shows Food Inflation Still Stocking the World
Growing Social Tensions
- Kemp Declares State of Emergency Over ‘Cop City’ Protests
- More Austerity Measures in 2023 Will Fuel Protests
- Cities Across the US Brace for Civil Unrest
- Brazil’s Capitol Riots
- Protests in Peru
- Protests in Bolivia
- Killing Spree in Iran as Government Crushes Dissent
- Thousands Protest in Tunisia
- Protests in Israel
- 1 Million Protest in France
- Tensions Soar in Haiti After Police Officers Killed
- More Conflict, More Violence, That’s the Future If the UK’s New Anti-Protest Law Is Passed
- UK Braces for Biggest Day of Strikes This Winter
Collapsing Systems
- Senators’ Departure Leaves Haiti Without An Elected Government
- History of Haiti
- Coming Collapse of the US Healthcare System
- 4 Month Cholera Outbreak Over in Borno Nigeria
- More than 1,000 Dead in Malawi’s Worst Cholera Outbreak
- What You Need to Know About the Global Cholera Outbreak
- 60,000 Confirmed Covid Linked Deaths in China in 30 Days
- USA Debt Ceiling Crisis
- New COVID Variant Is the Most Transmissible Yet
- Contemporary Hermits: A Developmental Psychopathology Account of Extreme Social Withdrawal in Young People.”
