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This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
Health issues on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation due to chemical factories; Love Canal toxic waste site; Minamata disease (1950s and 1960s) mercury poisoning in Japan; Kodaikanal mercury poisoning in India; Release of CFCs resulting in ozone depletion; Spring Valley, which was used as a chemical weapons testing ground during World War I.
If developing world demographics are assumed to become developed world demographics, and if the latter are extrapolated, some projections suggest an extinction before the year 3000. [ citation needed ] John A. Leslie estimates that if the reproduction rate drops to the German or Japanese level the extinction date will be 2400.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which looks at dozens of measures of economic and institutional health to compile a ranking of countries.
The world is currently […] You can skip our detailed analysis of the plight of the world and go directly to 5 Biggest Issues in the World and The Companies Working on Solving Them.
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Water scarcity is an increasing problem due to many foreseen issues in the future including population growth, increased urbanization, higher standards of living, and climate change. [ 24 ] Industrial and domestic sewage, pesticides, fertilizers, plankton blooms, silt, oils, chemical residues, radioactive material, and other pollutants are some ...
A record stay in earth’s orbit and a fine to Dish Network might have space debris in common.