A SET OF GLOBAL ISSUES

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INTRODUCTION

The following, a start, is as much about what is wrong with thinking today as it is about what is right (this does not mean that I think that the identified issues should be ignored)

Richard Smalley

1.      Energy

2.      Water

3.      Food

4.      Environment

5.      Poverty

6.      Terrorism & war

7.      Disease

8.      Education

9.      Democracy

10.  Population

United Nations

Ten threats identified in 2004 by the High Level Threat Panel of the United Nations:

1.      Poverty

2.      Infectious disease

3.      Environmental degradation

4.      Inter-state war

5.      Civil war

6.      Genocide

7.      Other Atrocities (e.g., trade in women and children for sexual slavery, or kidnapping for body parts)

8.      Weapon of mass destruction (nuclear proliferation, chemical weapon proliferation, biological weapon proliferation)

9.      Terrorism

10.  Transnational organized crime