What are the biggest global issues?

GLOBAL PROBLEMS
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   GLOBAL ISSUE TOPICS FOR ESSAYS AND RESEARCH PAPERS
   

2. WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST GLOBAL ISSUES?

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   THE TOP 10 MOST IMPORTANT CURRENT GLOBAL ISSUES
   

4. FIVE CURRENT GLOBAL ISSUES

GLOBAL PROBLEMS
The past several decades have been characterized by a planetary awakening, the emergence of a planetary consciousness, and the sense of living within a holistic planetary ecosystem and planetary human civilization. A significant factor in the emergence of this universal consciousness has been the increasing awareness that human beings face global problems on the Earth, problems that exist beyond the scope of national boundaries. At the same time, awareness is growing worldwide of our common human needs.
Increasingly, people around the world, even in the remotest regions, are aware of the planetary problem of war and militarism, the problem of growing fresh water shortages, the problem of the disappearance of agricultural lands for growing food, the problem of global pollution, the planetary problem of ever-growing poverty and misery for the majority, and the terrible problems of global warming, climate disruption, and pending climate collapse.
To date the feeble attempts to address these problems through divisive UN conferences and the development of unenforceable UN treaties have resulted in complete failure. The excellent aspirations called �Agenda 21� that came out of the 1992 Rio conference on climate change were recognized as unfulfilled ten years later at the 2002 climate conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen was similarly a failure. War and militarism continue to plague the people of Earth, fresh water and agricultural lands continue to disappear, pollution overwhelms ecosystems, forests, and oceans, poverty and misery continue to mount, and the consequences of climate disruption become ever more devastating.
The Earth Federation Movement (EFM) has understood the dynamics of these global problems for more than fifty years. It alone, among all the citizen movements that have developed in response to our multifaceted global crises, has focused on the central holistic solution that must be actualized if we are to survive and flourish on our precious planet Earth. The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) was founded in 1958 with the understanding that global problems cannot be addressed by fragmented political and economic institutions more than three centuries old, institutions created when the conditions on the Earth were entirely different than they are today, when people living on the Earth never even dreamed that there could be such a thing as planetary crises. global problems, or a population of seven billion people.
The Earth Federation Movement was born out of the World Constitution and Parliament Association and today has spread worldwide. Since 1958, our movement has drawn on the brightest and best international lawyers and thinkers from around the world to create the magnificently designed Constitution for the Federation of Earth. The Constitution was completed in 1991 and today the Earth Federation Movement works night and day to promote the ratification of the Earth Constitution by the people and nations of the world.
Today, I want to suggest four fundamental principles that should be the basis of all our thought and action if we want to create a decent future for the Earth and humanity. I will list the four principles first and then discuss each of them briefly. The first principle is that we must recognize and keep in mind that all our global problems are interdependent and interconnected. Second, we must recognize that the only possible solutions to these problems must also be holistic, integrated, and interconnected. Third, we must keep our focus on our basic human needs that all people everywhere have in common and ask how these needs can best be addressed. Finally, we must recognize that the Constitution for the Federation of Earth holistically addresses both our global crises and our human needs. 
First, therefore, we must understand deeply that our global problems are interconnected and interdependent. The problem of war and militarism is universal because it arises from a system of so-called sovereign nation-states more than three centuries old and from a global economic system that benefits from war and military competition among nations. Today, more than one trillion US dollars per year are poured down the toilet of militarism by the nations of Earth, while poverty and environmental collapse increase daily. 
The system itself (our planetary economic and political system) fosters war and militarism, and this is the same system that fosters poverty and misery and environmental destruction worldwide. The system of militarized sovereign nation-states is integrated with global corporate capitalism fostering economic and military rivalry and competition among peoples and nations. Big nations colonize trade privileges and concessions, backed up by neo-colonial influence and the threat of force just as they once colonized the world by direct military conquest. Without the rule of non-military, democratically legislated, enforceable law for the Earth, neither peace, nor elimination of poverty, nor protection of the environment are ultimately possible.
Study after study have shown that poverty negatively impacts the environment as poor people search for wood for cooking fuel and cut down trees to grow food for survival. A major source of deforestation and environmental damage is poverty, planetary poverty caused by the same political and economic system that diverts resources toward war and militarism in order to protect the wealth and power of the few. Peace cannot be achieved through ever- more violence, and a war system that creates conflicts around the world, a world that needs more than anything else cooperation and dedication to protecting the environment, insuring adequate resources, and eliminating poverty.




GLOBAL ISSUE TOPICS FOR ESSAYS AND RESEARCH PAPERS

Today, people are starting to become active participants in the fight against global issues and as a result, progress is being made. However, there are still individuals unaware of pressing issues around them. One way of bringing these people up-to-date would be through the use of essays or research. Here are 10 global issue topics for essays and research papers.
10 Global Issue Topics for Essays and Research

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