Global Grand Challenges

Global Grand Challenges

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1. Deforestation and desertification
2. Standing armies
3. High Gini Coefficient
4. Patent system that encloses public knowledge
5. Lack of public access to published journals. Solution possibility: cross subsidization or institution only pay for the service
6. Limitation of liability
7. Biodiversity loss
8. Alienation from work
9. Access to healthcare
10. Illiteracy, and especially collaborative illiteracy
11. Innumeracy and Scientific Illiteracy
12. Corporate funded research
13. Pollution, especially water pollution
14. Corrupt institutions
15. Economic system based on proprietary development as opposed to open source product development
16. Training as opposed to education
17. Disciplinary thinking
18. Agricultural monoculture
19. Fossil fuel energy
20. Global supply chains via cost extrernalization
21. Externalization of social, environmental, and lifetime costs
22. Slavery, including wage slavery
23. Consequences of Colonialism + Neocolonialism
24. Depression
25. Insurance Racket

Global Solutions

1. Education
2. Democracy
3. Transparency
4. Open source product development
5. Distributed production and especially Distributive Enterprise
6. Afforestation
7. Agricultural perennial polyculture
8. Renewable energy
9. Regenerative development of land
10. Economics based on full cost accounting
11. Building of (Renewable and self sustaining) Economies + Medical Sysytems + Infastructure in Developing and/or Island countries, Or rural areas of ones

that do not fit those prior conditions, yet face similar problems