What are the main challenges facing Mankind today?

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chair said:
What do you think are the biggest 2 or 3 problems/challenges facing Mankind today?
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There's only one that matters. It is the same problem mankind has faced for almost all of its history: How to overcome evil.
 
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bybee

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chair said:
What do you think are the biggest 2 or 3 problems/challenges facing Mankind today?
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To get man to use his strength constructively.
The Psalmist asks, "What is man oh God, that Thou art mindful of him?"
And I continue to ask of man, "What is God, oh man, that you are so unmindful of Him"?
 
PureX

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chair said:
What do you think are the biggest 2 or 3 problems/challenges facing Mankind today?
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That's a great question. One that I wish our nation and global human collective would ask itself far more earnestly that it does.

I would say our #1 problem right now is that our technological prowess has far, far outstripped our ethical prowess, to the degree that on several fronts, we are in danger of literally destroying ourselves and perhaps destroying the ecosphere of the entire planet. Currently, we are the only known expressions of "intelligent life" in the universe, and we are teetering on the edge of extinguishing it by our own hand.

I would say that out #2 problem is that we don't live long enough as individuals to apply what we learn over the course of our lives to the well-being of life and humanity in general. And as a result, every generation keeps making the same mistakes over and over and over. When, I believe, if we lived twice as long as we do, the second half of our lives could be spent actually applying the wisdom we acquired in the first half, because most of the survival tasks would be taken care of. The children would be raised, the wild oats have been sown, the heartbreaks and disappointments will have been put to rest, and we would still have some time and energy to actually do some good in the world. As it is, by the time we've gained some actual wisdom and common sense in life, we're too old to apply it effectively to the universal human endeavor.

And if I were to choose a 3rd universal human problem, I would say that it's the sudden and overwhelming degree of abstraction in most of our lives, as modern humans, causing us to become somewhat "insane" without even realizing it.

People living in the modern nations of the world have become so specialized and removed from the task of survival that most of them could not survive if the abstract, inter-related societies in which they live were to collapse or fall apart. Which they could do very easily. Almost none of us could build our own shelters, hunt our own food, make our own clothes, or defend our own lives if it were to become necessary. And because we don't know how to do these things, or even think about them, anymore, we have little cognizance or respect for the affinity with nature that goes along with such an elemental lifestyle. And we become too easily willing to poison and destroy the very natural habitat that we need to survive. We are getting lost in all this abstraction, and we are becoming literally insane as a result. We think money is more important than clean air and fresh water. Which is truly insane.
 
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There is only one true problem, from which all other problems, arise. That problem is, human nature; which is sinful and corrupt. This nature can only be corrected by God Himself. Humans can't do it - they can't correct themselves, it is beyond them. So until we see the reality of every human spiritually corrected and inwardly transformed, society will still have its preponderance of evils.
 
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PureX said:
That's a great question. One that I wish our nation and global human collective would ask itself far more earnestly that it does.

I would say our #1 problem right now is that our technological prowess has far, far outstripped our ethical prowess, to the degree that on several fronts, we are in danger of literally destroying ourselves and perhaps destroying the ecosphere of the entire planet. Currently, we are the only known expressions of "intelligent life" in the universe, and we are teetering on the edge of extinguishing it by our own hand.

I would say that out #2 problem is that we don't live long enough as individuals to apply what we learn over the course of our lives to the well-being of life and humanity in general. And as a result, every generation keeps making the same mistakes over and over and over. When, I believe, if we lived twice as long as we do, the second half of our lives could be spent actually applying the wisdom we acquired in the first half, because most of the survival tasks would be taken care of. The children would be raised, the wild oats have been sown, the heartbreaks and disappointments will have been put to rest, and we would still have some time and energy to actually do some good in the world. As it is, by the time we've gained some actual wisdom and common sense in life, we're too old to apply it effectively to the universal human endeavor.

And if I were to choose a 3rd universal human problem, I would say that it's the sudden and overwhelming degree of abstraction in most of our lives, as modern humans, causing us to become somewhat "insane" without even realizing it.

People living in the modern nations of the world have become so specialized and removed from the task of survival that most of them could not survive if the abstract, inter-related societies in which they live were to collapse or fall apart. Which they could do very easily. Almost none of us could build our own shelters, hunt our own food, make our own clothes, or defend our own lives if it were to become necessary. And because we don't know how to do these things, or even think about them, anymore, we have little cognizance or respect for the affinity with nature that goes along with such an elemental lifestyle. And we become too easily willing to poison and destroy the very natural habitat that we need to survive. We are getting lost in all this abstraction, and we are becoming literally insane as a result. We think money is more important than clean air and fresh water. Which is truly insane.
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Number one on your list, for some reason, skipped my mind. It is something that really needs to be addressed on a much grander scale.
 
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chair

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There have been two types of answers: ones dealing with specific problems, and those dealing with more philosophical issues. I was thinking more along the specific, practical lines, but find the philosophical ones interesting.
 
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rexlunae

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TracerBullet said:
Climate change
Wealth inequity
The rejection/vilification of science
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Good list. Mine would be similar.

1. Climate change.
2. Climate change.
3. Global Warming.
4. Wealth inequality and plutocracy.
5. Deliberate ignorance.
6. Religious fundamentalism.
7. Nuclear conflict and proliferation.
8. The loss of respect for human rights and the vilification of minorities.
9. Nationalism/nativism/xenophobia.
And finally...
10. Climate change.

Ok, my list went a bit long.
 
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bybee

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rexlunae said:
Good list. Mine would be similar.

1. Climate change.
2. Climate change.
3. Global Warming.
4. Wealth inequality and plutocracy.
5. Deliberate ignorance.
6. Religious fundamentalism.
7. Nuclear conflict and proliferation.
8. The loss of respect for human rights and the vilification of minorities.
9. Nationalism/nativism/xenophobia.
And finally...
10. Climate change.

Ok, my list went a bit long.
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So loyalty is out in your book?
 
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