The #1 world issue

[Philosophy Explorer]

Would you say it's freedom (in its many forms)?

PhilX

[Age]

The world does not have any issues. Only human beings have issues.

The number 1 issue would be the one that human beings have created.

Why would you even suggest the word 'freedom' as being any type of issue, and what do you mean by (in its many forms)? How many forms of freedom are there, and what are they?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Could you define 'issue'?

[Age]

Could you define 'issue'?

Who are you asking?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Could you define 'issue'?

Who are you asking?

The idiot who posted the thread of course.

[Philosophy Explorer]

Could you define 'issue'?

Who are you asking?

The idiot who posted the thread of course.

PhilX

[Greta]

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

[Dubious]

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

That's definitely the one! More of us less of everything else. The only thing I'm dubious about is whether climate change isn't going to eventually stop the increase and even reverse it. I thing that's more a question of when not if with the way things are heading.

There were always times in history when the living envied the dead. This may happen again but on a far grander scale without any consolation that it's only temporary.

[QuantumT]

Plastic pollution

[Arising_uk]

Global warming is number one.

Its too late to stop it so you should be asking your government and preferred poltical party what they are doing to prepare your nation for the consequences.

The second is antibiotic resistence and again pressure should be put upon government and the pharmaceutical industry to be researching new ones else we're going back to the very bad old days.

[QuantumT]

Global warming is number one.

I disagree. It's just a bump on the road. We've had warm (and cold) periods before, it will return to normal, and humanity will still be around.

[Greta]

Global warming is number one.

I disagree. It's just a bump on the road. We've had warm (and cold) periods before, it will return to normal, and humanity will still be around.

It's a decent sized bump. By the the time human population stabilises perhaps 10% of humanity will still be alive. Many parts of Asia, Africa, Central America and Australia will become completely uninhabitable and billions are certain to be wiped out in major catastrophic climate and related events this century.

As noted above, such decimation is unimportant in the greater scheme of things. It's not as though humanity are still humbled or fearful after the last major climate instability, an ice age about 50,000 years ago, reduced human populations from numbering in the millions to between 10,000-50,000 individuals. No, you just clean up the bodies and move on.

That kind of dynamic is soon to arrive again. As you correctly observed, some small minority of humans will almost certainly manage to survive. From there they will rebuild to the point where all the death and destruction seems as remote and trivial as the near extinction of humans in the last ice age seems to us.

Death and destruction simply don't matter in the greater scheme of things. That's what nature always does. It's only modern humans who fuss abut such things. In that sense, there are no world "issues", only events.

[QuantumT]

Reducing us from 7 billions to 7 millions wouldn't hurt. Most are idiots anyway.

[Walker]

This year is the half-century anniversary of The Population Bomb publication.

“Fears of a 'population explosion' were widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience.

“The book has been criticized since its publishing for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades for its inaccurate predictions.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

[Greta]

The strategy:

Find a very old publication that was incorrect and present this as the sum total of data, ignoring all of the correct predictions since.

Yep, that'll fool 'em.