Contributions solicited for a list of the major problems in the world. Here’s my start, in no particular order:
* Tibet, getting destroyed by China
* Ongoing genocide in Darfour
* High powered sonar giving whales and dolphins brain hemmorages
* US government wants to drill in the ANWR, over the protests of nature itself
* Local governments want to drill in costal shoals, over the protests of fishermen, environmentalists, and homeowners
* Two party system is driving all politics in the US to a zero sum shouting match
* Overpopulation
* Global disease (hanta virus + international airport = screwed!)
* US, still trying to occupy Iraq
* US, still trying to occupy Afghanistan
* Japan and China, soon to be in a nuclear arms race
* Unsustainable economic model demands exponential growth forever in order to avoid massive collapse.
* Peak oil
* Upswing in religious fundamentalism, worldwide.
* Nuclear proliferation: Iran, North Korea, Packistan, Israel. All nuclear armed. Sound like a bad idea?
* Biological weapons / bioterrorism
* Species being pushed into extinction at an increasing rate
* Obesity on the rise
That’s a start for now. Anything else? What did I miss?
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