What is the most important issue facing the world today?

im so academic

Climate change, the global economy, world poverty or something else? :smile:

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Reply 1

Amuroray

The global economy as that effects the relations between countries and i think that will be the start off WW3.

Reply 2

No Man

The increasing population. Sad but true.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 3

chinaberry

For me it's the moral degeneration of young people, since they (we) are the future.

Reply 4

TWF

Original post by No Man

The increasing population. Sad but true.

Not yet. Maybe in 1000 years time it will be real issue. When resources start to run out and poverty percentages are much higher.

Reply 5

No Man

Original post by TWF

Not yet. Maybe in 1000 years time it will be real issue. When resources start to run out and poverty percentages are much higher.

It still needs to be managed somehow.

Reply 6

Michael Locke

Original post by TWF

Not yet. Maybe in 1000 years time it will be real issue. When resources start to run out and poverty percentages are much higher.

You've got to be kidding.

Reply 7

TWF

Original post by Michael Locke

You've got to be kidding.

I am not kidding, maybe earlier than that, but we're nowhere near the carrying capacity.

The earth has more than enough resources to feed everybody on it. But the West consumes most of the earth due to its high living standard. If all resources were shared out equally, there would be no poverty or anything.

Religion.

The result of x-factor...

I don't know really. One of the following: climate change, fossil fuels running out, overpopulation, conflicts, international healthcare or poverty.

Reply 10

Ideot

Government control by increasingly powerful pharmaceutical companies.
Call me paranoid - perhaps I am :s

Reply 11

kronstadt

The ongoing crimes of capitalism, of course.

Reply 12

Tech

the remote possibility that sarah palin might actually be in charge of something important.

Reply 13

danny111

whether andy murray will ever win something big.

Reply 14

mathmagician

As No man said, global population.

Reply 15

508836

Original post by No Man

The increasing population. Sad but true.

The population is already decreasing in Europe and without immigration would in the US within a few years when the baby boomers start to die in large numbers. If present trends continue the population in the world is expected to peak in 2050 and them start to decline. Only in Africa and a few scattered countries are the fertility rates for woman not falling dramatically, China's fertility is already below replacement level and India's is falling rapidly and expected to be at replacement level within a decade.

Reply 16

508836

Original post by TWF

Not yet. Maybe in 1000 years time it will be real issue. When resources start to run out and poverty percentages are much higher.

Worldwide, there is a 50 percent chance that the population will be falling by 2050, according to a recent study published in Nature. By 2150, according to one U.N. projection, the global population could be half what it is today.