Are the three TRULY biggest current global problems Iraq, Darfur, and Global Warming?

Question

Are those the three problems we should TRULY be fucusing on TRULY solving?

With Iran, North Korea, and the ever present terrorism the top three on the second tier?

With global warming being one third the enviromental agenda preserving the size and health of all natural habitats(including our own civilized artifical one) and preserving and protecting all species from declining in numbers or becoming extinct(us being in the middle of the 6th extinction and all)

Then of course the ever present humaniterian missions of ending starvation, extreme poverty, sickness, and shining the light of knowledge and wisdom throughout the world?

I meant to say problems of global proportions getting global attention with real POSSIBLE permenent solutions, that once being dealt with are dealt with allowing people to move onto other new or old global problems of concern.

Terrorism is one of those problems that can't ever be not given attention and must be resolved slowly over many many years and no one is currently dieing over Iran or North Korea is why I listed them second tier and habitat preservation and species conservation are problems that can't ever be solved and then moved on from either, and starvation, poverty, sickness and ignorence are also larger more spread out problems that can only be solved very slowly over many many years.

Answer 1

The three biggest problems are poverty, global warming, and American imperialism.

Solve those three problems and the world will be much better off in 100 years.

Fail to solve those problems and we may not be here in 100 years.

Answer 2

Global Warming is a big problem; we rely too much on finite resources, controlled by unreliable sources. Further, the continued use of these resources may eventually cause the degradation of Earth's environment within a couple hundred of years.

I do not believe the occupation/civil war in Iraq and the problems with Darfur/Sudan rise to the level of being globally impacting.

However, the degradation and lost of credibility of the American Political Process may have world-effecting consequences, in that where goes America, the rest of the world shall follow.

Thus, it is now up to the newly-elected Congress to restore credibility in the United State's government processes.

Answer 3

I think some countries have their own priority list of "global" problems. However, I think the truly, largest global problem we are all facing is indeed global warming.

I smiled when I read the list of priorities you presented, as possibly, Iraq, and other priorities, have significantly contributed to an increase in global warming. Imagine those oil fields burning, and all the chemicals being sown in the air and ground over the last few years.

Perhaps, the truly biggest problem in the world today is self-righteousness and disrespect. Even further, perhaps the truly deepest problem today is being ignorant of what our purpose is on earth, and our obligations to the earth and humanity.

All I know is that it is relative, and therefore implied as a relational problem.

Answer 4

a million circulation of the earth in the universe. 2.circulation of the earth in the universe. 3.circulation of the earth in the universe. the international warming cycle is a organic prevalence, happens each couple of hundred tens of millions of years. See link below.

Answer 5

Iraq, Iran, North Korea..... you're right to suggest Global Warming is not a problem.

Answer 6

Global warming is only a problem when we get involved. Otherwise, nature can do quite well on its on.

From the looks of things, after the events of the past few days I would say Iran is one of the major problems today

Answer 7

Terrorism is the biggest problem because the world does not need another 9/11.

Global warming is another inevitable problem because it is for the survival of mankind.

Answer 8

I think you can actually combine some of that and say radical Islam, Global Warming, and lack of alternative energy sources.

Second tier would be healthcare, international corruption, and famine.

Answer 9

Darfur is most certainly a problem, but it is most certainly not a global problem; just regional.

Answer 10

Iran may become the biggest one very soon...

Iran is dealing with two issues. First, Iran has captured 15 British sailors. Second, Iran has refused to cooperate with the U.N. regarding cessation of uranium enrichment.

Military confrontation may be on the horizon.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3961
In addition to the British naval vessels at the Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian ocean, there is a multi-national force in the Persian Gulf. The British HMS Cornwall aircraft carrier strike group, the American aircraft carrier strike group Bremerton-based aircraft carrier CVN-74 John C. Stennis, the American aircraft carrier strike group USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force are all in close appoximation in the Persian Gulf. The USS Nimitz may also be in the Persian Gulf as it was scheduled for its WESTPAC07 deployment to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-68.htm

More details about military options can be found here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iran-strikes.htm

Iran has elicited "confessions" from the 15 British sailors they captured and may put them on trial for espionage. The penalty for espionage in Iran is death.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1563877.ece
“If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.” Espionage carries a death sentence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6493391.stm
Iran's detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is "unjustified and wrong", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said. UK officials are waiting to be granted access to the HMS Cornwall staff, who were seized on Friday, and have not been told where the group are held.

"It simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this is for us," Mr Blair said.

"We have certainly sent the message back to them very clearly indeed. They should not be under any doubt at all about how seriously we regard this act, which is unjustified and wrong."

On March 23, 2007, U.S. and British officials said a boarding party from the frigate HMS Cornwall was seized about during a routine inspection of a merchant ship inside Iraqi territorial waters near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway.

The seizure of two Royal Navy inflatable boats took place just outside the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a 125-mile channel dividing Iraq from Iran. Its name means Arab Coastline in Arabic, and Iranians call it Arvandrud - Persian for Arvand River. A 1975 treaty recognized the middle of the waterway as the border.

Iranians send arms to Iraqi extremists, including sophisticated roadside bombs. This week, two commanders of an Iraqi Shiite militia told The Associated Press in Baghdad that hundreds of Iraqi Shiites had crossed into Iran for training by the elite Quds force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard thought to have trained Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Regarding enrichment of uranium, Iranian President Mahmaoud Ahmadinejad abruptly cancelled his appearance before the U.N. security council and in his stead, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Iran spoke. He indicated that Iran was willing to continue negotiations but without the precondition that uranium enrichment must be halted.

Mottaki said, "the world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue: continued negotiations or confrontation. Choosing the path of confrontation ... will have its own consequences. "
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070325/D8O3E7J00.html

The U.N. security council unanimously voted to expand sanctions on March 24, 2007.

The new resolution 1747 calls on Iran to comply fully with all previous UN resolutions and join negotiations to reach agreement so as to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. Full transparency and cooperation with the IAEA are required. Suspension of Iran’s banned nuclear activities will elicit the parallel suspension of sanctions. The package of incentives offered Tehran last year for its cooperation remains on the table.

The full text of the draft of resolution 1747 appears at this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6455853.stm
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