What Are the World's Biggest Problems Besides COVID?

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The discussion highlights several pressing global issues beyond COVID-19, with overpopulation identified as a primary concern, as it exacerbates resource scarcity. Key problems mentioned include starvation and malnutrition, tyranny and oppression, pollution, drought, rising CO2 levels, crime, under-education, religious intolerance, discrimination, and the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Social media is also noted as a significant risk, facilitating the rapid spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories, which can lead to harmful actions. The conversation emphasizes the interconnectedness of these issues, suggesting that many can be categorized under broader themes like overpopulation.
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What do you think are the world's biggest problems aside from covid.
 
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What do you think are the world's biggest problems aside from covid.
Overpopulation of Earth by humans.
Many other significant world problems stem from the number of humans using limited resources.
 
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when you're washing your hands but you get water on your sleeves 😪
 
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Teenagers (i am 18, so i incluse myself hah)
 
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Having a pebble in your shoe and you're not in a place where you can stop and take your shoe off.
 
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Ask me six days from now.
 
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CoVid doesn't make my top ten list. In no particular order, and there are probably others I didn't think of:

Starvation/malnutrition
Tyranny/Oppression
Pollution
Drought
CO2 rise
Crime
Under-education
Religious intolerance
Discrimination/Racism
Weapons of Mass Destruction

Many of these could be subsumed under more general descriptions like "overpopulation"
 
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Social media is a big threat. It allows conspiracy nonsense to spread many times faster than real news And infect many more people than before the advent of social media.

which in and of itself isn’t as bad as the people believing and acting on the nonsense like it was true.
 
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I was hoping to prevent this thread from going into banned or restricted topics, but we can't so, thread closed.
 
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