What do you feel is the biggest global problem? Pollution, poverty, disease, war etc.

Why do you think what you think?

Pollution (including Global Warming) - it'll effect every nation sooner or later

Chavs will end us all.

You'll see.
YOU'LL ALL SEE.
I'll also be supplying a Braille version for those who can't.



But seriously - pollution, poverty, and waste seem to me to be the biggest problems right now.
Until World War III rears it's head.

Right now, the so called "Peace-Keepers" cops!!

No longer are they "peace-keepers" as far as I'm concerned..

If Global Warming is true, then I think that is a very bad problem that we need to conquer.

Hunger is the biggest problem since everybody needs food and water to survive, yet many people don't have food and water.

Ignorance

Of think we are bigger than elements and other people.

I have no idea what that means.

Poverty

it was adding to the ignorance 'of what i said before'.

Captialism is the worlds biggest problem at the moment.

at this point, the biggest problem we face is entirely natural.

whatever is going to kill us off is meant to, and nothing we can do will be able to stop it. everything has to die and so will our civilization. and then a new one will be born, no point in trying to figure it out and stop it.

you can hinder the process, but not by much. global warming, natural disasters, war, disease, none of it can be stopped. just live and see when it all goes down

All of those can actually be stopped.

not true.

global warming is completely natural. what humans do only adds to it slightly. even if we stopped it would still continue.

natural disasters are well...natural. you cant stop nature and there is bound to be a huge one eventually. even if you prepare for the damage it will still happen and something will go wrong.

disease adapts. once you vaccinate for one disease, a new one will emerge and will probably be more powerful.

war will always happen. there will always be a conflict and there always will be someone whos willing to pay the ultimate price to resolve that conflict.

Humanity is its own worst enemy and its greatest ally. I say this because we are all capable of harming and helping each other. Once people set aside personal agendas and work at helping each other, strengthening their community, then we can worry about the environment.


Nothing puts things in perspective like crazy religious fundamentalists threatening nuclear armaggeddon upon you. XD

I totally agree.



And there will also be darkness for 3-4 days. We wont have any accese to light. There will be total darkness.

which will never happen

This is a terrible argument. If everything has to die, then why do anything period? Why get out of bed? Why work? Just sit there and die, right?
We should try stopping or slowing down these "natural" process because it perpetuates our existence.

While global warming would happen naturally, humans are accelerating the process quite quickly, not slightly. If you understand the basic science behind global warming then you know that humans are not small contributors to global warming.

Disease is the biggest problem. It's always been something to haunt us, and has killed more people than any war ever has. AIDS, Cancer, etc. We need to put more money into research to cure these diseases, not into Hippie Liberal Organizations to do the impossible task that is "Stopping Global Warming".

In my opinion overpopulation is the biggest global problem, a lot of other things are lead off from this: Hunger (more people=more food=no room for food production=hunger (yes I know can also come from other things) , (some) Diseases (more people could be worse hygiene=more diseases), pollution (more people=more factories,cars and whatever pollutes=more pollution) and in some cases wars (fight for resources),

Solution? Not possible at this time and probably never

Disease.

The black plaque pretty much nearly wiped out Europe and as far as i know, no one actually knows what the black plague was (so it would be as lethal now as it was then), it just dissappeared.

Overpopulation is also a major problem, once a coumtry has spent its own resources it gets them from somewhere else, and if it can't buy them then it will kill for them, nothing is worse than a war for resources because its not a war about ideals, its a war where they don't give f*** about coalteral damage, they just kill anyone that tries to deny them the resources they need to survive.

unless viable renewable energy sources are developed, this is what WILL happen.

would China or the US or any country for that matter just stand there and let themsleves fall apart frorm lack of resources?

Somehow i don't think so

Here in Britain, where going to have to go back to steam power again, that is until someone nukes us for the coal...

Agreed. I think, once we humans all stop warring with each other, we'll realize that we've overcrowded the earth.

When I was in my biology class about a year ago, my teacher had a really doom-and-gloom lesson, where he told us that if the population doesn't do down drastically or we (humanity as a whole) start rationing things like fuel and fresh water, we will run out of both by around 2012. I'm not sure how much fact there is in that, it's just what I was told. However, it is a real eye-opener.

aren't the olypmics held in 2012? :D

I agree with the post above me. overpopulation

Our biggest problem is human stupidity. I'm going to leave it at that, but if people want me to explain, so be it.

Yes, I'll have to agree with you on that. Almost all the other problems come from that, and all the ones that are not so-called "acts of god".