What is the most pressing global issue - if any?

Among the most evident environmental problems are overpopulation, resource depletion, pollution, water pollution, waste and waste disposal, ocean acidification, acid rain, ozone layer depletion, global warming/climate change, loss of biodiversity and habitat loss, deforestation, and urban sprawl. OR None.

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

🤔 I don't know that it can really be narrowed down to just one. Wealth distribution is a serious issue all over the place. The African Civil War is a very, very serious problem. Climate change is a major concern. Developing economic models that work in a highly automated world is a major concern. Food distribution to avoid major famine is a problem. Figuring out means of quick and efficient disease control is a major concern... Ever so many different things, that's just barely scratching the surface.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi UndeadPrivateer
I agree. There is a considerable list. I asked this question out of a disagreement on SW with Cierzo as to if we need a world government. He contended we did not as we do not have global problems. That is what I understood him to mean anyway.
Best wishes
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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@sogdianrock Nationalism is on the rise lately. Globalism is quite scary to those that are of the nationalist mindset. For reasons that I really cannot fathom, personally.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi UndeadPrivateer
indeed.
I am spending a rainy day watching the film "Oh What a Lovely War." It should be compulsory viewing for Nationalists.
Best wishes
:)

Cierzo · M

@sogdianrock Even if there may be problems that affect more than one nation, the solutions should not be the same in every nation since cultural environments are different.

This is not my only concern about a global government. The only way to control eight billions of people is a totalitarian government. It does not have to take the shape of 20th century dictatorships with uniforms and parades. It would be much subtler. Making people totally dependant on the state through a basic income, for instance. More Brave New World than 1984.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Cierzo ·
I support Universal income. I simply do not find world or regional government as a threat. In politics Subsidiarity is the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level. For example "the Maastricht Treaty reasserts the rights of member nation states through the subsidiarity principle". Obviously Brexit suggests more people share your view that organisation of nations states is a terrible thing.
I am still watching the film Oh What a lovely War btw. It is a long film. Not as long as WW1 though.
Best wishes
:)

Cierzo · M

@sogdianrock I am not a nationalist at heart. I support nation state now against global state. When that threat disappears, I will support cities against the nation state. I am for the tribe, small group of individual with a similar cultural background and common interests for the future, that known each other and therefore can choose the more skilled onez to rule.

Maastricht treaty says that? Then the EU is even more hypocrite than I thought, since EU institutions are taking more and more power and threatening governments who dare to disagree, like the Hungarian and Polish ones.