Informally, a global issue is a problem that issues [social problems | social, economic, political or environmental impacts on our global community and our environment, perhaps in a very bad way.
Solutions to global problems require cooperation between countries.
In their book Global Issues, Hite and Seitz emphasize that global issues are qualitatively different from international affairs and that the first arises from the growth of international interdependence that makes the issues themselves interdependent. It is thought that our global connection, rather than (only) makes us tougher, makes us more vulnerable.
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UN list
The UN has listed the most pressing issues of 2015:
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List of World Economic Forum/economic issues
In accordance with an economic-centered view, the World Economic Forum formulates a list of the 10 most pressing points in 2016:
- Food safety
- Inclusive growth
- The future of work/unemployment
- Climate change
- The global financial crisis
- The future of the Internet/Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Gender equality
- Global trade and investment and regulatory framework
- Long-term investment/Investment strategy
- Health care in the future
Environmental issues
Theories such as world system theory and the Gaia hypothesis focus on the inter-dependency aspects of environmental and economic issues. Among the most obvious environmental issues are:
- overpopulation
- resource depletion
- pollution
- water pollution
- waste and waste disposal
- ocean acidification
- acid rain
- ozone depletion
- global warming/climate change
- loss of biodiversity and habitat loss
- deforestation
- urban sprawl
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