Which do YOU think is the foremost problem/crisis the world faces today and why? (41)

democracy everywhere is relatively successful i think Trish .. not the true spirit we want to sense..

The US thing i have not enough substantial knowledge .. must follow and read up more ..

Off for now ..

Good to see you back and i shal try to get hold of that track ..

off for a while .. keep the replies coming.

Thankyou people.

More people need to zig instead of zag.

Ignorance coupled with aggression and scarcity of resources, unfair market trade and economic competition, growing global population and limited resources.

hunger, homelessness, poverty, diseases, wars -- world problems especially in underdeveloped countries. hopefully training, development and funding will solve some of it.

I believe its predominantly a lack of caring that seems to be ever more prevalent as time goes on.

A "don't care" attitude begets a "don't care" atittude begets..... and so on. As with "not my problem", "doesn't affect me"... etc, etc.

I think many of those listed and the dilemmas we face today stem from that very approach we seem to have adopted.

Whereby, hundreds of years ago, even unil fairly recent times, people were born, lived all their lives, and died within their own communities and everyone knew each other. These communities relied on each and every member. As money per se would have been scarce, trading was commonplace. The farmer would probably trade provisions for having his horse shoed, and the dentist would treat the baker in return for some bread, etc.

Now we have all moved to various parts of the world, away from our original communities and even families. We have worked on being more independent and self-sufficient. Therefore, the perception is that we have so much more at our fingertips and no need for dependency on others, in turn becoming all the more selfish and self-absorbed.

Sadly, that is the PERCEPTION... when one really thinks about it, we do STILL actually need each other!!

Sorry for the waffle.... JMO.

Biggest problem in my mind is population. Its the overabundance of people on this planet that are consuming natural resources at an alarming rate. The deforestation of rainforests in order to provide housing and farmland to feed those masses, the destruction of natural wildlife habitat for similiar reasons, the over fishing of the world oceans, to provide more food.... pollution of the air and waters, something has gotta give.....you can only get so much water out of a sponge.......... the worlds population needs to be drastically reduced.... it would bring longevity to future generations.