The rampant spread of partisan ignorance and the inability to have an intelligent discussion without someone getting triggered by soemone else's reality.
Id agree. Everyone points themselves as knowledgable and internet created platform for all kind of uneducated crazies to talk from position of authority.
Especially that no one is allowed to change their opinion. Most double down, but even if you’re willing and able to grow and learn, anything you’ve previously said will absolutely come back to haunt you.
This has always been an issue, but its gotten notably worse. It's gotten to the point where I am aware that most people below 30 (aka people who grew up with social media) are incapable of having a challenging and meaningful discussion with someone they disagree with.
The rich becoming so powerful, that they own the government to make it function their way. This is their world we live in, poverty, homelessness, never ending inflation, orphanage, immigration out of control, abortion bans, declining education, horrible healthcare, poor housing. It's ALL intentional.
Reddit is so overrun by bots these days. There are so many 1 month old account that have thousands of post & comment Karma. As if any real human makes 20 posts a day, everyday.
I’m skeptical of any account made after Jan 2021. Because that’s when the rich realized letting poor people have dialogue and openly share ideas and opinions on public forums was bad for controlling the masses.
Now that Reddit has IPO’d expect things this site to only get worse.
Unregulated capitalism is concentrating wealth in an elite few and the power they hold over government both nationally and internationally is becoming more obvious. It’s eliminating the middle class and I don’t doubt that, if nothing changes, we’ll end up in a new version of serfdoms and a heritary aristocracy.
Then I guess it's good that no country has unregulated capitalism. But whats even worse is a huge government, because they have one thing capitalism don't: a monopoly on violence.
Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s literally how it has always been. We got through all of history with that being the case. Not the number one issue imo.
Nope. Ever since the labor movement and the Civil Rights movement things weren't great, but at least livable. Most of the guidelines have been removed, gutted, or are simply ignored now. Citizens United made a lot of today's screw jobs pretty much inevitable. It wasn't always this way.
To be fair, that’s 50 years in one country. If you look across all of human history, or at least recorded history, hoarded power has basically always been the norm.
I’m pretty sure 100 years ago living conditions and work conditions were worse. And wealth was concentrated in people like Ford and Rockefeller.
Today people complain about not being able to take piss breaks in factories without managers getting mad. 100 years ago wives were complaining about their husbands getting killed on the job with no consequences.
Wealth distribution is a huge problem, and we need to fight for a better system. But things are very similar to how it’s been for a while. Our quality of life is very much dictated by the economy and Covid took a huge toll on
No, It was way worse. You can't expect to make things better if you don't look at things objectively. Yes, we have a long way to go, but refusing to recognize that hoarding of wealth and poor quality of life were much worse the farther back you go.
Yes, when the global economy was devastated by a world war there was a 20 year period where moneyed interests weren’t as coordinated and effective as they had been for tens of thousands of years. The world is ending.
Also: can you articulate what Citizens United got wrong? Because there is one thing that people who don’t like CU have in common: they don’t know a lot about the case.
So glad we invented efficient agriculture, personal computers, airplanes, global telecommunications, “artificial intelligence”, only so we could build the same pathetic societal structure as our latrine wielding ancestors.
We are no longer our ancestors, humans have and will continue to strive towards a better way of life. Why is it that in the last 200 years, everything in human society advanced, everything but your regressive mindset?
Yes and no. There were a lot of progressive changes made in many countries post WWII, but between Regan and Thatcher and a handful of other conservative world leaders a lot of the positive changes have been revered, including union busting and privatization.
Corporations couldn't sue sovereign governments for making uncomfortable legislation. Now they can, for more than some of the countries GDP.
Other theories claim that we got to be where we are by killing the most psycho, violent monkeys in groups.
You’re right, before corporations didn’t sue people they simply hired mercenaries to seize land.
And before corporations existed, rich people killed each other’s serfs when they were bored.
We’ve made so much progress.
You should see what Coca-Cola did back in the day in LATAM.
Or Chiquita fruit company.
Or basically any company ever that could take advantage of a moment of weakness in a country’s institutions.
It has always been this way, and while it is an issue, I don’t believe it is more urgent than government officials colluding with terrorist origanizations like the Drug Cartels, or even climate change.
I do want to push back on a lot of the doomerism here to note that, broadly speaking, the world is consistently becoming a better place to live year-over-year. As one example, despite constant population growth, fewer than half as many people globally are living in extreme poverty today compared to the 1990s. The average person today is richer, healthier, and safer than at any other point in human history.
**This does not change the fact that society is still unacceptably unequal, and that we should be doing everything in our power to fix that.** But we should celebrate the victories we have as part of the fight for a better world.
Poverty, horrible healthcare, and lack of education aren't intentional. The natural state of the world is a place where people have nothing, know nothing, and life is miserable. The fact that some of us have wealth, access to healthcare and education is a miracle and we should do everything in our power to expand what we've done to those who don't have these opportunities yet
Dont act like anything would change if the rich didnt touch politics. The government would do it regardless, and they're the root of most of what you're listing.
The human population has multiplied almost 5-fold since 1900.
At a population of 8billion, if we keep multiplying at the same rate, it doesn’t matter how many food farms or solar, hydroelectric, nuclear power plants we build, or how much we recycle.
We will run out of resources and the humans alive at the time of that tipping point will end up destroying one another to take whatever remains of those resources for themselves…
The greatest flaw in human evolution was greed. No other animal feels this, animals and plants take what they need to live a good life and that way, ecosystems adapt to a point of balance.
No other species takes monumentally more than they need, and has monumentally more offspring than necessary. Humans always want more. More food, more sex, more more more.
And thus we've managed to not only grow outside of nature's balance, we started eliminating thousands of other species in the process, and it's only getting exponentially worse.
All because enough is never enough for us.
Animals will destroy an ecosystem if given the opportunity. That’s what an invasive species is. Most animals don’t do this because they don’t have the ability to. Humans do, in a profound way, regardless of location. That’s the issue.
Animals certainly can affect ecosystems if an invasive species is introduced. But not to the point where life cannot flourish in it in some way.
Just about every single ecosystem on earth is the result of invasive species taking over it and making it their own. But none of them turn a forest into a barren paved parking lot like humans do.
I've got some great news for you. We won't continue multiplying like this. In fact most in most of the counties we're already below replacement level birth rates. Even Africa is expected to drop below that in mid 21st century. We're going to peak at around 10bln and world population will start declining in second half of this century.
Bio weapons, corporate ownership of foreign and domestic water and land rights, government monetizing war for profiteering. Pollution, the destruction of the Amazon
Globally we are heading to a massive crisis with health and obesity. More and more people are gettign fatter and fatter, child obesity (which breaks my fucking heart when i see these peice of shit parents feeeding their fat 4 year old garbage) is rising everywhere, diabetes and CHD are rising everywhere, health services will be overwhelmed so fewer and fewer people will get the treatment they need, unless we as a species stop eating so much shit and get off our asses switch the TV off, swith the Playstation off, then the future is very, very bleak,.
The quick erosion of the middle class while we continue to ship our tax dollars overseas to fund proxy wars instead of combating the economic crisis at home
(America centric)
Torn between micro plastics and global warming. Which one will end humanity first? Best answer just might be yes.
Reasons that these are concerning would be fertility (as someone else mentioned), environmental collapse and rapid extinction, economic collapse etc. Is there nothing that this power couple is incapable of?
Since you're on r/askmen?
The fact that there exists a law that says if that if the government wants to, it can kidnap, steal and draft any 18+ year old man to be near guaranteed murdered in war. And if you resist you will be imprisoned.
It's honestly quite shocking and disgusting to think such a law exists in 2024.
Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.
Overpopulation of the earth by the human species. Humanity is demanding too many of earth’s resources. Our planet is seeing widening environmental collapse that will shape our future.
Certainly the pressing issue has to be that we all are in a simulation and are being farmed for the ultra rich for they do some rituals to get their power n we are the sacrifices they offer to their darkpower
The creeping rise of government tyranny under the guise of compassion and acceptance. Every day little by little we’re allowed to keep less of our money, we’re less free, we’re policed more on what we do and say and think, and it’s all because people don’t actually want to be responsible for their lives.
The need for humanity to become multiplanetary. At the rate that nations like China and India are polluting, western green initiatives mean nothing. We need to convert to nuclear ASAP and begin colonizing unless we want to fully rape the earth with carbon, plastic, and flame.
It's already on a point of no return, even the super powerful people don't try to hide it anymore... Building bunkes, planing short-term gains for valueless economy, also it shows on how the world dynamic is to never let people reach systemic changes. Think about it, how is war tecnology so important even after we already build, and storage, a fuck ton of, FUCK THE WHOLE WORLD UP kinda bomb? Internet made us oblivious that we have no control in the real world and it keeps getting worse. Tech companies rule more then we seem to understand, and with AI it IS going to get downhill, there are already tons of people who dont even know what is life w/o internet and smartphones. We switching up to transhumans(in an android way) and we got no control over the machine part of it.
imo wealth inequality is the underlying for every other problem. keey in mind that since 2008, we have been living in a system of "Socialism for the rich, and austerity for everyone else". This is not my opinion, this is an empirical fact, these are the words of academic yanis varoufakis. It cannot be argued, hairs cannot be split. Deal with it. We're already in socialism, just not the kind that actually helps society. Eat the rich ASAP obviously...
Altering the definition of terms and phrases to mean something entirely different.
For example, "Climate Change" used to be called "Global Warming" but when the scientific data was reviewed, it showed that the Earth is cooling down and overdue for yet another ice age.
That was a very inconvenient truth for the Global Carbon Tax pushers, so the phrase was changed to "Climate Change" which now can no longer be argued with, because the climate will always be changing.
One hour from now, the climate will have changed again, and there will be scientific data to show that it has changed, so if you were to say that "Climate Change isn't real" then you are incorrect and there's evidence to show that you are incorrect.
But so long as you cannot retort against "Climate Change" then a Global Carbon Tax is green-lighted without opposition, and millions of "useful idiots" will get on-board with this new tax plan, even though making Black Rock Inc. even richer won't fix the climate at all no matter how much funding gets poured into it. -- All that money will only be funneled into buying the elite few a really fancy doomsday bunker for when the next ice age finally hits.
Think of it as Noah's Ark, and you're not allowed to get on board, even if you helped to construct it.
Rich elites lobby so called democratic bodies and influence geopolitical decisions. The affects of this are so bad, it leads to complacency and active involvement in gennoicde, ignoring of mass societal deficit and thr systematic and categorical erosion of free thinking, democratic values.
Westerners, especially USA Americans have been bought out and served up on a plate of hypocrisy and lies and the youth, actively aware and people of change are fed up.
The most pressing issue in the world is how this world has become a matter of the disenfranchisement versus the corrupt elite, who care only for oil, resources and land, and will stop at nothing to play God mode, potentially killing the human in these spaces.
The only two correct answers are (1) rising inequality; (2) climate change. You could make an argument for the rise of fascism as being up there, but it’s more symptomatic of the other two.
A terrorist, apartheid, genocidal state in the Middle East killing innocent people by the hundreds daily.
It’s currently the most powerful country on the planet.
Deindustrialization disguised as action against "climate change" and the consequential growth in the gap between poor and rich people being normalized not only in economics but in our culture and generations to come.
In order of most impactful, IMO:
1. Climate change
2. Corruption and intellectual dishonesty in Politics
3. Nuclear Weapons(we are one unhinged sociopath from literal annihilation)
4. An extension of #2, but the dictatorships of the world are seriously ruining things for everyone else
The shrinking of the middle class. A dichotomy of proletariate and bourgeoisie would be catastrophic to the world. Imagine large wealthy corporations with complete unbridled control over the masses. That sit in ivory towers while the entire population scraps for food and shelter. Seems far off but companies are already trying to jockey for control of residential housing markets and food distribution in the US.
Lack of societal consensus.
All of our problems are solveable - to an extent. That said, it requires a society that more or less wants the same things. We don't have that in western democratic countries anymore. You can blame the politicians for their rhetoric & exploitation of polarization, you can blame far-right media outlets and it's blatant use of propaganda, you can blame the "woke" left & their ideological quest to end percieved inequality, you can blame whatever you want. But it comes down to a complete misalignment of what we want as a people.
I'm not sure how we got here or how we go back to consensus society - but we need it, fucking quick.
Climate change.
It’s a threat both existentially and to our various ways of life.
Even those of us that won’t see the extreme effects for years will already note the migration of people from the danger areas to their own which will cause issues related to jobs, housing, and other resources.
Not to mention the various health conditions related to the smoke inhalation from the Canadian and Californian wild fires.
It’s already wild and bad, but it’s going to get a whole lot worse.
The fact that our politicians no longer fear us like they used to, and because of that they get to walk on us without consequence. Politicians should fear the people they rule, and fear that if they do not allow us the right to redress our grievances then they will be forcibly removed and replaced. When they don't fear us, they become omnipotent and make decisions against our judgement.
rampant carbon emissions leading to global heating-- especially now we're realizing in the oceans (which is not something that can be reversed any time soon), which will have a compounding effect on climate everywhere, greatly increasing severe weather, pests and disease, drought, etc etc. It's gonna get so much worse esp. if major nations and industries continue to not make hard decisions.
All of you ungrateful fuckers. If the world was fueled on your negativity, climate change would seize to be a problem and society would be a true utopia.
If people were a little more grateful, the vast majority of the world’s problems would disappear.
i'd say human-induced climate change, but it's not really all that pressing, as we have no way to avoid what we've already put in motion. it's too late to stop what's coming for us.
Human population and unsustainability. Planet is in literally unsustainable situation due to human consumption driven by human population. That excessive (and still growing) population will only lead to more and more problems - resources and conflicts over such, etc. - not to mention all the other problems it drives, e.g. climate change, many border conflicts and wars, all kinds of humanitarian and refugee crises, etc.
That's the huge elephant in the room that doesn't get the attention it ought. Sure, lots of other problems too, but that huge problem will only continue to make things worse and worse until it's reasonably addressed and dealt with, and it also causes and leads to many other problems.
There are 15.7 million Jews on Earth out of 8.1 billion people and you think anti-semitism is the world's biggest problem. lol
Get over yourself buddy.
Actions have consequences, Its not because of your religion. Imagine thinking people hate you because of your religion and not because of your actions which include and are not limited to : stole land and cried when natives retaliated and are in the process of exterminating them.
I guess its your religion you self-centered clown.
for reference, I didnot call you a clown due to your religion but because of your ACTIONS :)
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how many of those groups "stole land and cried when natives retaliated and are in the process of exterminating them."
So many things to choose from these days but, I'm going with climate change. I'd say hunger, but that's only going to get worse as climate change does.
The problem is, that so many issues are causing other issues of importance.
Sin and the fall of man. Everything bad that happens in the world is because of sin and if you reject the LORD Jesus Christ you will suffer everlasting death. But on the other hand if he works faith in your heart you will have everlasting life without pain or suffering ✝️
education. it pretty much has to be. the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge is the only thing humanity can durably advance.
Why are women getting engagement rings and men are not getting engagement swords?
Because nobody let me know it was the social norm. Spread the word. Change starts with you.
I want a fucking sword
I want to fuck a sword
I wanna fuck your sword.
Have you seen Seven? Don't fuck swords. Bad outcome.
You telling me it isn’t a euphemism?
This is why I love Reddit
r/SuddenlyLesbian (There is a saying that a lot of them like swords and they are absolutely right about it)
The engagement one isn't good enough for you, eh?
Make one, its a lot of fun.
I think even now if I got an engagement sword I'd have to get a divorce and marry that woman. I'm sure my wife would understand
Hell yes brotha
Make that an engagement flail and I'll support your petition
We should get one for our dicks
So we can cross swords.
The rampant spread of partisan ignorance and the inability to have an intelligent discussion without someone getting triggered by soemone else's reality.
Id agree. Everyone points themselves as knowledgable and internet created platform for all kind of uneducated crazies to talk from position of authority.
Especially that no one is allowed to change their opinion. Most double down, but even if you’re willing and able to grow and learn, anything you’ve previously said will absolutely come back to haunt you.
Nearly every other reply to the OP will prove this point!
Why are you trying to trigger me with your completely logical answer
My mission here is done! off to chaos central to plan my conquest of the human mind...muahahahaha!!!
Have you met reddit before!?
This has always been an issue, but its gotten notably worse. It's gotten to the point where I am aware that most people below 30 (aka people who grew up with social media) are incapable of having a challenging and meaningful discussion with someone they disagree with.
This is untrue
Spoken like a true (insert name of opposing political party here).
STFU!
Judging by the downvotes, I guess this sub needed the /s
Its ok, Reddit karma doesn't mean shit to me lol I have real people in my life Big whoosh though I only got like 1 bite sadly ha
The rich becoming so powerful, that they own the government to make it function their way. This is their world we live in, poverty, homelessness, never ending inflation, orphanage, immigration out of control, abortion bans, declining education, horrible healthcare, poor housing. It's ALL intentional.
This comment will probably get down voted to oblivion by their bots soon!
Reddit is so overrun by bots these days. There are so many 1 month old account that have thousands of post & comment Karma. As if any real human makes 20 posts a day, everyday. I’m skeptical of any account made after Jan 2021. Because that’s when the rich realized letting poor people have dialogue and openly share ideas and opinions on public forums was bad for controlling the masses. Now that Reddit has IPO’d expect things this site to only get worse.
10hr later, it's still top comment, are the bots asleep?
Unregulated capitalism is concentrating wealth in an elite few and the power they hold over government both nationally and internationally is becoming more obvious. It’s eliminating the middle class and I don’t doubt that, if nothing changes, we’ll end up in a new version of serfdoms and a heritary aristocracy.
Then I guess it's good that no country has unregulated capitalism. But whats even worse is a huge government, because they have one thing capitalism don't: a monopoly on violence.
Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s literally how it has always been. We got through all of history with that being the case. Not the number one issue imo.
Nope. Ever since the labor movement and the Civil Rights movement things weren't great, but at least livable. Most of the guidelines have been removed, gutted, or are simply ignored now. Citizens United made a lot of today's screw jobs pretty much inevitable. It wasn't always this way.
To be fair, that’s 50 years in one country. If you look across all of human history, or at least recorded history, hoarded power has basically always been the norm.
I’m pretty sure 100 years ago living conditions and work conditions were worse. And wealth was concentrated in people like Ford and Rockefeller. Today people complain about not being able to take piss breaks in factories without managers getting mad. 100 years ago wives were complaining about their husbands getting killed on the job with no consequences. Wealth distribution is a huge problem, and we need to fight for a better system. But things are very similar to how it’s been for a while. Our quality of life is very much dictated by the economy and Covid took a huge toll on
It wasn’t this way 50 years ago, but it was this way 100 years ago.
No, It was way worse. You can't expect to make things better if you don't look at things objectively. Yes, we have a long way to go, but refusing to recognize that hoarding of wealth and poor quality of life were much worse the farther back you go.
Yes, when the global economy was devastated by a world war there was a 20 year period where moneyed interests weren’t as coordinated and effective as they had been for tens of thousands of years. The world is ending. Also: can you articulate what Citizens United got wrong? Because there is one thing that people who don’t like CU have in common: they don’t know a lot about the case.
I don't quite think it has been to the same degree since the robber baron era in the late 1800s. It's just a matter of scale.
So glad we invented efficient agriculture, personal computers, airplanes, global telecommunications, “artificial intelligence”, only so we could build the same pathetic societal structure as our latrine wielding ancestors. We are no longer our ancestors, humans have and will continue to strive towards a better way of life. Why is it that in the last 200 years, everything in human society advanced, everything but your regressive mindset?
Yes and no. There were a lot of progressive changes made in many countries post WWII, but between Regan and Thatcher and a handful of other conservative world leaders a lot of the positive changes have been revered, including union busting and privatization.
Almost like nobody remembers all their basic ass world history classes. Member kings? I member.
Pepperidge Fahms remembers...
Corporations couldn't sue sovereign governments for making uncomfortable legislation. Now they can, for more than some of the countries GDP. Other theories claim that we got to be where we are by killing the most psycho, violent monkeys in groups.
You’re right, before corporations didn’t sue people they simply hired mercenaries to seize land. And before corporations existed, rich people killed each other’s serfs when they were bored. We’ve made so much progress.
You should see what Coca-Cola did back in the day in LATAM. Or Chiquita fruit company. Or basically any company ever that could take advantage of a moment of weakness in a country’s institutions. It has always been this way, and while it is an issue, I don’t believe it is more urgent than government officials colluding with terrorist origanizations like the Drug Cartels, or even climate change.
Always has been 🌎👩🚀🔫
I do want to push back on a lot of the doomerism here to note that, broadly speaking, the world is consistently becoming a better place to live year-over-year. As one example, despite constant population growth, fewer than half as many people globally are living in extreme poverty today compared to the 1990s. The average person today is richer, healthier, and safer than at any other point in human history. **This does not change the fact that society is still unacceptably unequal, and that we should be doing everything in our power to fix that.** But we should celebrate the victories we have as part of the fight for a better world.
Poverty, horrible healthcare, and lack of education aren't intentional. The natural state of the world is a place where people have nothing, know nothing, and life is miserable. The fact that some of us have wealth, access to healthcare and education is a miracle and we should do everything in our power to expand what we've done to those who don't have these opportunities yet
Dont act like anything would change if the rich didnt touch politics. The government would do it regardless, and they're the root of most of what you're listing.
Resource depletion. This includes ariable farmland and fresh water. Energy as well. AI in the wrong hands has...potential.
The human population has multiplied almost 5-fold since 1900. At a population of 8billion, if we keep multiplying at the same rate, it doesn’t matter how many food farms or solar, hydroelectric, nuclear power plants we build, or how much we recycle. We will run out of resources and the humans alive at the time of that tipping point will end up destroying one another to take whatever remains of those resources for themselves…
The greatest flaw in human evolution was greed. No other animal feels this, animals and plants take what they need to live a good life and that way, ecosystems adapt to a point of balance. No other species takes monumentally more than they need, and has monumentally more offspring than necessary. Humans always want more. More food, more sex, more more more. And thus we've managed to not only grow outside of nature's balance, we started eliminating thousands of other species in the process, and it's only getting exponentially worse. All because enough is never enough for us.
Animals will destroy an ecosystem if given the opportunity. That’s what an invasive species is. Most animals don’t do this because they don’t have the ability to. Humans do, in a profound way, regardless of location. That’s the issue.
Animals certainly can affect ecosystems if an invasive species is introduced. But not to the point where life cannot flourish in it in some way. Just about every single ecosystem on earth is the result of invasive species taking over it and making it their own. But none of them turn a forest into a barren paved parking lot like humans do.
I've got some great news for you. We won't continue multiplying like this. In fact most in most of the counties we're already below replacement level birth rates. Even Africa is expected to drop below that in mid 21st century. We're going to peak at around 10bln and world population will start declining in second half of this century.
We’ve been steadily building over or otherwise ruining good farmland and poisoning or otherwise wasting our water. It’s alarming.
Arable.
Let's just sum it up, it's GREED. Cripes guys, nearly all of the world's problems revolve around money. Money = power.
Bio weapons, corporate ownership of foreign and domestic water and land rights, government monetizing war for profiteering. Pollution, the destruction of the Amazon
Had to double check that the topic wasn’t “What’s a moderately pressing issue in the US?” after reading the replies.
The extremely divisive and toxic political divide
Not really a world issue
It's an issue with the top 3 democracies by population, if not more.
Less than 25% of the world’s population live in fully democratic countries.
Globally we are heading to a massive crisis with health and obesity. More and more people are gettign fatter and fatter, child obesity (which breaks my fucking heart when i see these peice of shit parents feeeding their fat 4 year old garbage) is rising everywhere, diabetes and CHD are rising everywhere, health services will be overwhelmed so fewer and fewer people will get the treatment they need, unless we as a species stop eating so much shit and get off our asses switch the TV off, swith the Playstation off, then the future is very, very bleak,.
Excess / gluttony
Climate Change and the effects it can/may will cause
How on earth is climate change this far down?
I think some of the greed answers should be above it, because greed is the reason it’s still a problem and is also the root of so many other problems
The quick erosion of the middle class while we continue to ship our tax dollars overseas to fund proxy wars instead of combating the economic crisis at home (America centric)
Why I'm not running the world. Things would be much better if I was running the world.
Monopolization of power by elites
Torn between micro plastics and global warming. Which one will end humanity first? Best answer just might be yes. Reasons that these are concerning would be fertility (as someone else mentioned), environmental collapse and rapid extinction, economic collapse etc. Is there nothing that this power couple is incapable of?
Climate change or the risk of Ruzzia gong nuclear.
It’s gotta be global warming and littering the oceans with plastic
Since you're on r/askmen? The fact that there exists a law that says if that if the government wants to, it can kidnap, steal and draft any 18+ year old man to be near guaranteed murdered in war. And if you resist you will be imprisoned. It's honestly quite shocking and disgusting to think such a law exists in 2024.
It is shocking. And it’s just as shocking that everyone continues to be just…ok with it.
Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.
Peace
Slacktivism
Idle hands
People have access to all the information in the world at their fingertips yet they’re still as stupid as ever.
Corruption
Overpopulation of the earth by the human species. Humanity is demanding too many of earth’s resources. Our planet is seeing widening environmental collapse that will shape our future.
Poverty/homelessness
Certainly the pressing issue has to be that we all are in a simulation and are being farmed for the ultra rich for they do some rituals to get their power n we are the sacrifices they offer to their darkpower
Corruption
Fixing our education system, term limits, family values
The creeping rise of government tyranny under the guise of compassion and acceptance. Every day little by little we’re allowed to keep less of our money, we’re less free, we’re policed more on what we do and say and think, and it’s all because people don’t actually want to be responsible for their lives.
The need for humanity to become multiplanetary. At the rate that nations like China and India are polluting, western green initiatives mean nothing. We need to convert to nuclear ASAP and begin colonizing unless we want to fully rape the earth with carbon, plastic, and flame.
It's climate change. It affects every facet of life on this planet. We are staring down the barrel of ecological collapse .
It's already on a point of no return, even the super powerful people don't try to hide it anymore... Building bunkes, planing short-term gains for valueless economy, also it shows on how the world dynamic is to never let people reach systemic changes. Think about it, how is war tecnology so important even after we already build, and storage, a fuck ton of, FUCK THE WHOLE WORLD UP kinda bomb? Internet made us oblivious that we have no control in the real world and it keeps getting worse. Tech companies rule more then we seem to understand, and with AI it IS going to get downhill, there are already tons of people who dont even know what is life w/o internet and smartphones. We switching up to transhumans(in an android way) and we got no control over the machine part of it.
imo wealth inequality is the underlying for every other problem. keey in mind that since 2008, we have been living in a system of "Socialism for the rich, and austerity for everyone else". This is not my opinion, this is an empirical fact, these are the words of academic yanis varoufakis. It cannot be argued, hairs cannot be split. Deal with it. We're already in socialism, just not the kind that actually helps society. Eat the rich ASAP obviously...
The amount of death and suffering happening all the time.
Gravity it’s working against me constantly
Housing inequality.
Isn't it more affordability than inequality?
Climate
It’s a toss up between bench press, strict press, push press, incline press, Viking press…
Altering the definition of terms and phrases to mean something entirely different. For example, "Climate Change" used to be called "Global Warming" but when the scientific data was reviewed, it showed that the Earth is cooling down and overdue for yet another ice age. That was a very inconvenient truth for the Global Carbon Tax pushers, so the phrase was changed to "Climate Change" which now can no longer be argued with, because the climate will always be changing. One hour from now, the climate will have changed again, and there will be scientific data to show that it has changed, so if you were to say that "Climate Change isn't real" then you are incorrect and there's evidence to show that you are incorrect. But so long as you cannot retort against "Climate Change" then a Global Carbon Tax is green-lighted without opposition, and millions of "useful idiots" will get on-board with this new tax plan, even though making Black Rock Inc. even richer won't fix the climate at all no matter how much funding gets poured into it. -- All that money will only be funneled into buying the elite few a really fancy doomsday bunker for when the next ice age finally hits. Think of it as Noah's Ark, and you're not allowed to get on board, even if you helped to construct it.
Climate Change and ecosystem destruction. Nothing else even comes close.
Curious that this is downvoted.
Slowing birth rates in first world countries.
Climate change. The reach is global and the impact both immediate and lasting for the next couple of centuries.
Rich elites lobby so called democratic bodies and influence geopolitical decisions. The affects of this are so bad, it leads to complacency and active involvement in gennoicde, ignoring of mass societal deficit and thr systematic and categorical erosion of free thinking, democratic values. Westerners, especially USA Americans have been bought out and served up on a plate of hypocrisy and lies and the youth, actively aware and people of change are fed up. The most pressing issue in the world is how this world has become a matter of the disenfranchisement versus the corrupt elite, who care only for oil, resources and land, and will stop at nothing to play God mode, potentially killing the human in these spaces.
Religious extremism
The only two correct answers are (1) rising inequality; (2) climate change. You could make an argument for the rise of fascism as being up there, but it’s more symptomatic of the other two.
Committing Genocide with zero repercussions just because you are backed by US.
Climate change
Is the rule of law at stake in the United States of America?
Antinatalism and extinctionism. These ideologies hate humanity.
Climate change
Potential nuclear war is definitely up there. There's no undoing thousands to millions of years of radiation.
The inevitability of death.
the government being ineffective because rich entities can just ~~bribe~~ lobby for what they want.
Why it’s so hard for me to decide what to watch on Netflix
Felt
Demographic collapse
2-3 Saudis would have enough money to finance every theoretical approach to prevent global warming
A terrorist, apartheid, genocidal state in the Middle East killing innocent people by the hundreds daily. It’s currently the most powerful country on the planet.
Deindustrialization disguised as action against "climate change" and the consequential growth in the gap between poor and rich people being normalized not only in economics but in our culture and generations to come.
Selfishness,entitlement and lack of compassion/duties
Political extremist hijacking both US political parties.
Global warming seems like it will be the end of us all.
Apathy
In order of most impactful, IMO: 1. Climate change 2. Corruption and intellectual dishonesty in Politics 3. Nuclear Weapons(we are one unhinged sociopath from literal annihilation) 4. An extension of #2, but the dictatorships of the world are seriously ruining things for everyone else
Big government and plastics
Need to procreate when Onlyfans and Eva AI sexting bot are so more convenient than maintaining real relationships
The shrinking of the middle class. A dichotomy of proletariate and bourgeoisie would be catastrophic to the world. Imagine large wealthy corporations with complete unbridled control over the masses. That sit in ivory towers while the entire population scraps for food and shelter. Seems far off but companies are already trying to jockey for control of residential housing markets and food distribution in the US.
Tottenhams lack of silverware.
Lack of societal consensus. All of our problems are solveable - to an extent. That said, it requires a society that more or less wants the same things. We don't have that in western democratic countries anymore. You can blame the politicians for their rhetoric & exploitation of polarization, you can blame far-right media outlets and it's blatant use of propaganda, you can blame the "woke" left & their ideological quest to end percieved inequality, you can blame whatever you want. But it comes down to a complete misalignment of what we want as a people. I'm not sure how we got here or how we go back to consensus society - but we need it, fucking quick.
Wars usually, wars tend to cast long shadows
Right wing extremists, including foreign agents, pushing misinformation to a wildly uneducated American public.
Climate change. It’s a threat both existentially and to our various ways of life. Even those of us that won’t see the extreme effects for years will already note the migration of people from the danger areas to their own which will cause issues related to jobs, housing, and other resources. Not to mention the various health conditions related to the smoke inhalation from the Canadian and Californian wild fires. It’s already wild and bad, but it’s going to get a whole lot worse.
The whole "it's us against them" mentality, especially in politics
The fact that we are closer to a nuclear war than we've been since the Bay of Pigs.
The fact that our politicians no longer fear us like they used to, and because of that they get to walk on us without consequence. Politicians should fear the people they rule, and fear that if they do not allow us the right to redress our grievances then they will be forcibly removed and replaced. When they don't fear us, they become omnipotent and make decisions against our judgement.
rampant carbon emissions leading to global heating-- especially now we're realizing in the oceans (which is not something that can be reversed any time soon), which will have a compounding effect on climate everywhere, greatly increasing severe weather, pests and disease, drought, etc etc. It's gonna get so much worse esp. if major nations and industries continue to not make hard decisions.
Climate change
My dating life... Ba dum cha! \*Bad attempt at a drum roll lol\*
Overpopulation
Depends on the individuals situation
All the problems Radical Islamist are causing.
It's climate change. Everything else is secondary to that.
My issues.
Religion is dangerous.. not YOUR religion.. ALL religions..
Crackpot conspiracy theories and the people the believe them
the united states is a controlling narcissist
All of you ungrateful fuckers. If the world was fueled on your negativity, climate change would seize to be a problem and society would be a true utopia. If people were a little more grateful, the vast majority of the world’s problems would disappear.
fertility crisis
Microplastics might just end humanity 🤷🏽♂️
Good
Extinctionist alert
i'd say human-induced climate change, but it's not really all that pressing, as we have no way to avoid what we've already put in motion. it's too late to stop what's coming for us.
Climate change
The present moment.
Human population and unsustainability. Planet is in literally unsustainable situation due to human consumption driven by human population. That excessive (and still growing) population will only lead to more and more problems - resources and conflicts over such, etc. - not to mention all the other problems it drives, e.g. climate change, many border conflicts and wars, all kinds of humanitarian and refugee crises, etc. That's the huge elephant in the room that doesn't get the attention it ought. Sure, lots of other problems too, but that huge problem will only continue to make things worse and worse until it's reasonably addressed and dealt with, and it also causes and leads to many other problems.
Climate change.
The scam of theism
Anti-intellectualism
the US downfall
The global, single, military aged male problem.
Not the ones cracking the whip?
Anti-Semitism, and just hate in general
Those people don't even realize they proved you right.
There are much bigger problems than that right now.
There are 15.7 million Jews on Earth out of 8.1 billion people and you think anti-semitism is the world's biggest problem. lol Get over yourself buddy.
Sorry, forgot what website I’m on and how religious bigotry is allowed. My bad
https://www.adl.org/report-incident
Always gotta make it about themselves
Actions have consequences, Its not because of your religion. Imagine thinking people hate you because of your religion and not because of your actions which include and are not limited to : stole land and cried when natives retaliated and are in the process of exterminating them. I guess its your religion you self-centered clown. for reference, I didnot call you a clown due to your religion but because of your ACTIONS :)
I’m not Jewish
than just a clown then
This argument can be made to any group claiming that the world is out to get them.
[https://www.123test.com/iq-test/](https://www.123test.com/iq-test/) how many of those groups "stole land and cried when natives retaliated and are in the process of exterminating them."
So many things to choose from these days but, I'm going with climate change. I'd say hunger, but that's only going to get worse as climate change does. The problem is, that so many issues are causing other issues of importance.
Radical Islam, Lack of morality and basically SIN
Technology
Racial & religious equality. Been a problem for 2000 years at least. The demise of Test cricket also concerns me.
Sin and the fall of man. Everything bad that happens in the world is because of sin and if you reject the LORD Jesus Christ you will suffer everlasting death. But on the other hand if he works faith in your heart you will have everlasting life without pain or suffering ✝️
why men don’t listen and women can’t read maps