Climate, chaos and war fill a doomy agenda at Davos

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The limos have been booked. Hotels have loaded up with champagne. Shops have been converted into pop-up offices for the tech giants. The annual Davos talkfest is about to begin. The collective mood of the 2,800 participants is anything but cheery as they make their way to the small Alpine town immortalised by Thomas Mann in his novel The Magic Mountain for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). That’s because there are four “C”s that will dominate this year’s event: conflict; the new cold war; climate; and chaos – or the potential for it, arising as a...