List of global issues
Informally, a global issue is any issue (problem, risk) that adversely affects the global community and environment, possibly in a catastrophic way, including environmental issues, political crisis, social issues and economic crisis.
This is a list of global issues.
Solutions to global issues generally require cooperation among nations.[1]
In their book Global Issues,[2] Hite and Seitz emphasize that global issues are qualitatively different from international affairs and that the former arise from growing international interdependencies which makes the issues themselves interdependent.[3] It is speculated that our global interconnectedness, instead of (only) making us more resilient, makes us more vulnerable to global catastrophe.[4]
Global catastrophic risks
- Climate change
- Artificial general intelligence
- Biotechnology risk
- Ecological collapse
- Molecular nanotechnology
- Nuclear holocaust
- Overpopulation
- Global pandemic
UN list
The UN has listed issues that it deems to be the most pressing as of 2015:[5]
World Economic Forum list / economic issues
In keeping with their economy-centered view, the World Economic Forum formulated a list of 10 most pressing points in 2016: [7]
- Food security
- Inclusive growth
- Future of work/unemployment
- Climate change
- Financial crisis of 2007–2008
- Future of the internet/Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Gender equality
- Global trade and investment and regulatory frameworks
- Long-term investment/Investment strategy
- Future healthcare
Global environmental issues
No single issue can be analysed, treated, or isolated from the others.[8] For example, habitat loss and climate change adversely affect biodiversity. Deforestation and pollution are direct consequences of overpopulation and both, in turn, affect biodiversity. While overpopulation locally leads to rural flight, this is more than counterbalanced by accelerating urbanization and urban sprawl. Theories like the world-system theory and the Gaia hypothesis focus on the inter-dependency aspect of environmental and economic issues. Among the most evident environmental problems are:[9][10][11][12]
- Overconsumption – situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem. This, along with overpopulation, are the primary factors affecting the severity of all of the rest of the issues on this list.
- Overpopulation – too many people for the planet to sustain. This, along with overconsumption, are the primary factors affecting the severity of all of the rest of the issues on this list.
- Acid rain
- Biodiversity loss
- Deforestation
- Desertification
- Global warming/climate change
- Habitat destruction
- Holocene extinction
- Ocean acidification
- Ozone layer depletion
- Pollution
- Waste and waste disposal
- Water pollution
- Resource depletion
- Urban sprawl
See also
- Center for Global Food Issues
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Climate change
- Cybersecurity
- Developing country
- Earth Economics
- Earth system science
- Ecological footprint
- Energy crisis
- Environmental social science
- Financial crisis
- Global catastrophic risk
- Global Challenges Foundation
- Global change
- Global governance
- Global health
- Global justice
- Global Rights
- Global warming controversy
- Human impact on the environment
- Human security
- Intergovernmental organization
- List of United Nations peacekeeping missions
- Liu Institute for Global Issues
- Mass surveillance
- Ozone depletion and climate change
- Pandemic
- Peak oil
- Social justice
- Species extinction
- Washington consensus
- World Community Grid
- World-systems theory
- World War
References
- Bhargava, Vinay (2006). Global issues for global citizens : an introduction to key development challenges. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. ISBN 9780821367315. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- Global Issues
- "Global Issues (2012), Foreword"
- Hotchkiss, Michael (1 December 2014). "A Risky Proposition: Has global interdependence made us vulnerable?". Princeton University. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues Overview". United Nations. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Education First Initiative - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- Hutt, Rosamond; Content, Formative (21 January 2016). "What are the 10 biggest global challenges?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/issues/global/major-global-issues-diagram-lg.jpg
- Rinkesh (27 June 2014). "15 Current Environmental Problems That Our World is Facing - Conserve Energy Future".
- "The World's 6 Most Pressing Environmental Issues".
- "NRDC - Our Work".
- "Environmental Issues — Global Issues".
Literature
- John L. Seitz, Kristen A. Hite (2012). Global Issues (4 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-65564-1.
- Richard J. Payne (2012). Global Issues (4th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-0205854592.
- Michael T. Snarr, D. Neil Snarr, ed. (2012). Introducing Global Issues (5th ed.). Lynne Rienner Pub. ISBN 978-1588268457.
- Shirley A. Fedorak (2013). Global Issues: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Paperback. ISBN 978-1442605961.
- Global Education Magazine
- Global Environmental Politics
External links
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- "Think Global: Learn More About Global Issues". dus.psu.edu. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- "Global issues". TED.com. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues". TakingITGlobal. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all". Global Issues. 24 September 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues Network". Global Issues Network. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Issues of resilience, interdependence and growth affect global climate change risk". Carbon Brief. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "A list of the most urgent global issues". 80,000 Hours. 30 April 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2018.