Global Grand Challenges
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Global Grand Challenges
Hint: Disclaimer: This page is a work in progress and 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
- Deforestation and desertification
- Standing armies
- High Gini Coefficient
- Patent system that encloses public knowledge
- Lack of public access to published journals. Solution possibility: cross subsidization or institution only pay for the service
- Limitation of liability
- Biodiversity loss
- Alienation from work
- Access to healthcare
- Illiteracy, and especially collaborative illiteracy
- Innumeracy and Scientific Illiteracy
- Corporate funded research
- 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
- Agricultural monoculture
- Fossil fuel 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
Global Solutions
- Education
- Democracy
- Transparency
- Open source product development
- Distributed production and especially Distributive Enterprise
- Afforestation
- 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