In your opinion, what should we be most concerned about?

[TauroLomo]

The war?
Inflation?
Global warming?
The NHS?
Womens rights?

What else?

There has been very little but big, somewhat terrifying, news stories over the past couple of years. Sometimes I find it overwhelming, it’s almost as if my brain can’t decide what to worry about first.

In your personal opinion, what current issues either globally or closer to home, warrant more intense and concentrated attention?

And I know it does little use to worry about things we have no control over, perhaps that was a bad choice of phrase. But I suppose I want to educate myself better on what’s going on around us and would massively appreciate some views and opinions on what you deem to be most pressing.

Thank you.

The Tories

The things no one is talking about…

I don’t even know what they are in other fields but in the environmental field it’s soil degradation, erosion, and desertification.

It’s one of the keystones to climate change and your dinner plate and it never gets a mention. A decade ago we had 100 harvests left. So that’s 40 years; unless we chop down all non touched land for fresh soil. And then we have natural vegetation left 🤷‍♀️

Non of those. Jesus christ I have enough going on in my own life day to day to be worrying about issues in the the broader sense. I would literally never sleep.

Unless an individual has a magic button to do something and solve an issue being concerned isn't going to fix anything

If you want to do something to help them look into practical things

Peak Oil.
Google it.

It will affect farming and food prices more quickly and more immediately than global warming, soil depletion or lack of water.
It will continue driving inflation/deflation/economic chaos long after the war in Ukraine is history.
It will exacerbate global warming as desperate countries switch back to coal (and the best of the coal was burnt last century).
It triggered the 'Arab Spring' - the after effects of which are still reverberating around the Middle East and North Africa.

As usual, the rich Western countries will be the last to suffer, and their governments will shield their populations from the full truth for fear of stoking unrest.

What you can do about it? Get used to being poor. If you are currently not totally poor, live as if you were actually poorer than you are, to free up funds for paying down debt / mortgage as quickly as you can.
If you have no debt, spend money on learning how to do things so you don't have to pay other people to do them.

Honestly turn off the news. Look at the beautiful sky. Go for a walk. Smell the grass

The dentistry crisis. No NHS dentists in my county at all. I know people with scary symptoms who can not get seen.

global warming/ climate change, obviously, because unless we stabilise the planet everything else is irrelevant anyway

Crime & the general state of societies another worry.

NHS which links to Mental Health…am so worried that the NHS is not capable of coping with Mental Health problems! Basically anyone who was born with tough genes are ok ,but otherwise so many people are all suffering because of this difficult world we are all living in !

Am guessing that the COL is not a problem for you then ! Oh to look at the sky and smell grass to pay the bills …really!!

Really? My bills wont go down to a manageable level if I go for a walk.

Global warming, by a long way.

That's not to underplay the importance of the others, though. As others have said, these things are all connected.

Climate death

It's NOT change, it's DEATH 💀

Yes. The soil situation is so terrifying, I block it out.

Whether cream eggs or caramel eggs are better

violence against women and girls

children growing up not knowing about the natural world or where food comes from, not caring for nature or animals

The UK isn’t in a war.

global warming is a massive issue for UK Citizens
NHS is a massive for UK citizens
inflation is massive for UK

ageing population as it has huge implications. NHS won't be able to cope, not enough cash, more of a housing crisis, lack of workers. education funding cuts due to falling pupil numbers et.

Aliens

I feel if we don't protect our rights as women, our health, employment, housing, travel access will be controlled by another force. Its insidious.

So, for me the mental health of children, especially gay children is paramount to ensure as they grow they are embraced as they are and not converted. If we don't protect that we won't need to worry about anything else as our rights will have gone into state control.

I personally worry about all of these things but add in plastic pollution and antibiotic resistance. We should worry about all of these things because they have a common cause, the system by which we organise the world - ie. neoliberal capitalism. Before anyone jumps down my throat, I absolutely acknowledge that changing things on this scale is a massive ask, maybe even impossible, but this is what it will take.

Overpopulation. It’s at the root of climate change and environmental destruction, yet nobody ever talks about it. The explosion in the world’s population over the last 150 years has been a catastrophe. In 1900, there were just over a billion humans. By 1960 that had trebled to three billion. By 2000 it had increased to six billion. Today it’s eight billion.

I know somebody will reply that the birth rate is dropping. But that’s only true in some places. In Africa, it’s booming. African women have five children, on average, and the population of Africa is going to double by 2050. Also, scientists are now working on ways to radically extend the lifespan. Pretty soon, thanks to senolytic drugs, etc, people in the developed world will be living to 120, even 150. In other words, they won’t be making room.

It will be the combination of climate change, overpopulation and mass migration that brings things crashing down.

UFO's.

Artificial intelligence here too! I recently read about it and it blew my mind aha