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=Global Grand Challenges=
#redirect [[Pressing World Issues]]
 
{{Hint|'''Disclaimer:''' This page is a work in progress, and items are not listed in order of importance. The meaning of some of the following items may be different than what you may think, so please limit your assumptions. Further explanations will be provided and published in a forthcoming book, after being vetted and peer reviewed for general consensus and best practices}}
#General ecocide (Whole World issue)
#High [[Gini Coefficient]]
#High [[Cost of Living]], preventing honest pursuit of [[Self-Determination]] by most people (a First World issue)
#Standing armies
#Deforestation and desertification
#Genocide
#[[Political Ponerology]], or promotion of evil withing institutions
#Resource scarcity - water rights, clean air, clean food (Whole World issue)
#Patent system and other legal fictions for enclosing public knowledge
#Lack of public access to published journals. Solution possibility: cross subsidization or institution only pay for the service
#Limitation of liability (ie, fundamental unaccountability baked into the operation of enterprise)
#Biodiversity loss
#Alienation from work (related to high [[Cost of Living]]
#Access to healthcare
#Illiteracy, and especially collaborative illiteracy
#[[Innumeracy and Scientific Illiteracy]]
#Corporate funded research which encloses the intellectual output of public institutions
#Pollution, especially water pollution
#Corrupt institutions
#Economic system based on proprietary development as opposed to open source product development
#Training as opposed to education
#Disciplinary thinking, as opposed to systems thinking which acknewledges that things are connected.
#Agricultural monoculture
#Fossil fuel energy instead of renewable energy
#Global supply chains via cost extrernalization
#Externalization of social, environmental, and lifetime costs
#[[Slavery]], including wage slavery
#Consequences of Colonialism + Neocolonialism
#[[Depression]]
#[[Insurance Racket]]
#[[Corrupt Officials and Bribes]]
 
=Universal Solutions=
#Universal access to education (upgrading the operating system in peoples' heads)
#[[Circular Economies]]
#[[Open Source Product Development]]
#[[Transparency]]
#[[Ethical Economics]]
#[[Distributed Production]] - [[Distributed Manufacturing]] - and especially [[Distributive Enterprise]]
#Democracy
#Transparency
#[[Afforestation]] - planting trees. For example, transitioning from fossil fuels to biofuels can be accomplished by repurposing wasteland and other use to [[Integrated Polyculture]] biomass production
#Agricultural perennial polyculture
#Renewable energy
#Regenerative development of land
#Economics based on full cost accounting
#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
#Unlimited Liability Company
#Termination of [[Public Offering]] which separates agency from the executive role. (this is a longer discussion)
 
=Links=
*[[Andre Gunder Frank]]
[[Category: Pressing World Issues]]

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