Which issue is the most important 2 u ?


What's the most pressing global issue ?  

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  1. 1. What's the most pressing global issue ?

    • addressing global poverty
      4
    • making education accessable for all
      4
    • famine relief
      0
    • cleaning up the environment (exisitng pollution)
      0
    • fighting the war on terror
      5
    • finding clean energy sources (addressing future pollution)
      5
    • debt relief for the 3rd world (you go, bono)
      1
    • global warming
      4
    • population control
      1
    • keeping the global economy on track
      1
    • biodiversity (preserving the rainforests, etc)
      0


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Dudes + dudettes,

There's no definitive answer since they're all important, and the issues listed are probably interlinked further up the chain.

The point I'm trying to get at is which issue, in your opinion, needs urgent attention NOW !

Actually, I've a paper to do and thought it best to check 1st on Neowin to make sure I'm not wholly off track.

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Well to be honest I think most of them are related. Fighting poverty helps end famine, make education available, improve the global economy and helps fight terrorism. So that would be my main block of things to do, and environmental issues would be my second, and I don't think over population is really an issue, if more of the world countries economies were firing on all cylinders. There is still plenty of land and more than enough means to feed everyone we have right now, we just don't do it.

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Can't really vote for my most pressing because they are all linked back to our capitalist ways. As long as certain peopel are being oppressed, it doesn't matter what other stuff we do. We'll always be fighting the underlying cause: capitalism.

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Education.

I may be a liberal, but I am a realistic one, and I am not one like Bono who demands foreign aid to Africa. It accomplishes nothing in the long term. Africa cannot survive on handouts forever. Eventually they will need to survive themselves. We must educate the African and Asian youth.

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Education is very important but unless you can keep the global economy on track then you can't afford to do any of those things. Thus, I voted for "keeping the global economy on track".

I don't consider the global war on terror really that significant (in the grand scope of things).

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Education.

I may be a liberal, but I am a realistic one, and I am not one like Bono who demands foreign aid to Africa. It accomplishes nothing in the long term. Africa cannot survive on handouts forever. Eventually they will need to survive themselves. We must educate the African and Asian youth.

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Bono and Live 8 was not asking for food aid or more handouts to Africa. The goal was to get nations to donate 0.7 of 1% of their GDP to international development.

International development seeks to reduce corruption, increase efficiency and encourgage private investment with the goal of long term development of 3rd world nations. Ultimately this will make them less dependant not more.

Can't really vote for my most pressing because they are all linked back to our capitalist ways.  As long as certain peopel are being oppressed, it doesn't matter what other stuff we do.  We'll always be fighting the underlying cause:  capitalism.

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The ultimate solution may also be capitalism.

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Education. Everything else like economic prosperity stems from it. Debt relief and combating global poverty, which to me screams africa, isn't up there. Recently, I've changed my view on it. Like Iraq, we've invaded it, according to many "screwed" it up, so now we've got to fix it, and we can't count on anyone else. Likewise, Europe invaded and screwed Africa, and I really don't see why it holds countries like the U.S. and Canada accountable as well. I realize I'm going to get shot for saying that...

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Bono and Live 8 was not asking for food aid or more handouts to Africa.  The goal was to get nations to donate 0.7 of 1% of their GDP to international development. 

International development seeks to reduce corruption, increase efficiency and encourgage private investment with the goal of long term development of 3rd world nations.  Ultimately this will make them less dependant not more.

The ultimate solution may also be capitalism.

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Oil for food scandal comes to mind...so They need to help themselves. Other than invading their countries we really have little assurances that money (aid) will do what it is intended. Let Bono and those who reap huge fortunes from the public at large help those areas they try to convice us to spend our tax money on. Hell we need to fix our own problems before we can effectively help others.

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Clean energy sources and global warming should have been one choice. They're pretty much the same issue.

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I did think about that when putting this together but chose to keep them separate. By clean energy sources I meant wave harvesting, wind farms, etc. but with global warming, I had the melting ice caps, rising sea levels in mind.

As I said, they're all interlinked further up the chain - but we only have limited resources to handle one issue at a time. :D

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Oil for food scandal comes to mind...so They need to help themselves. Other than invading their countries we really have little assurances that money (aid) will do what it is intended. Let Bono and those who reap huge fortunes from the public at large help those areas they try to convice us to spend our tax money on. Hell we need to fix our own problems before we can effectively help others.

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Oil for Food is a relatively small problem. Slightly over a million dollars has been found to have been criminally misappropriated so far. It is possible that significantly more money was wasted due to incompetence or inefficiency but the numbers quoted in the conservative media involves billions of dollars that Iraq profited illegally from illicit oil sales (mostly to nations like Syria). Considering that UN member nations were in charge of enforcing the trade embargo, this is not something that can be tied into the Oil-For-Food scandal even though some people would like to try to make it stick.

The difference here is that we find out about scandals and misappopriation. In developing nations this can be a daily fact of life. You want a building permit? Buy the clerk a car.

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Bono and Live 8 was not asking for food aid or more handouts to Africa.  The goal was to get nations to donate 0.7 of 1% of their GDP to international development. 

International development seeks to reduce corruption, increase efficiency and encourgage private investment with the goal of long term development of 3rd world nations.  Ultimately this will make them less dependant not more.

The ultimate solution may also be capitalism.

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Thanks for clearing that up, Fred!

I always thought that the 0.7% GDP goal was merely for debt relief and immediate assisstance. I guess I didn't read too clearly on the issue.

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