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Contemporary issues are problems and opportunities that are relevant to present day life and politics. This includes social, environmental, economic and ethical issues created by the high rate of change to technology, societies, ecosystems, cultures, lifestyles and thinking that have characterized this period of world history. The following are illustrative examples of contemporary issues.
Ageing Populations | Air Quality | Algorithmic Bias | Animal Rights | Artificial Intelligence | Bullying | Chemical Waste | Civility | Climate Change | Corporate Accountability | Cost of Education | Cost of Healthcare | Cost of Living | Crime | Criminal Justice Reform | Cronyism & Corruption | Culture Change | Cybercrime | Cybersecurity | Data Security | Democratic Rights & Freedoms | Desertification | Destruction of Ecosystems | Digital Literacy | Disability Inclusion | Disaster Resilience | Disease | Drought | Drug Addiction | Economic Change | Economic Rights & Freedoms | Education Reform | Environmental Justice | Epidemics & Pandemics | Equal Rights | Excesses of Capitalism | Extinctions & Existential Risk | Financial Inclusion | Financial Stability | Food Security | Free Trade | Freedom of Movement | Freedom of Religion | Freedom of Speech | Freedom of the Press | Globalization | Government Accountability | Government Services (e.g. Public Healthcare) | Government Spending & Debt | Gun Control | Homelessness | Human Rights | Hunger & Nutrition | Identity Politics | Indigenous Rights | Individual Sovereignty | Inflation | Infrastructure | Jobs & Development | Media Consumption & Habits | Media Literacy | Migration & Citizenship | Military Automation | Minimum Wage | Misinformation | Monopolies | Nanotechnology | Nature Conservation | Nuclear Weapons | Obesity | Ocean Conservation | Partisanship & Political Polarization | Plastic Waste | Political Participation | Political Rights & Freedoms | Political Stability | Pollution | Poverty | Privacy Rights | Public Security | Racial Justice | Racism | Refugees | Regulation of Industry | Regulation of Technology | Rights of Children | Sanitation | Scientific Ethics | Social Change | Social Justice | Social Security | Sovereignty | Space Environment | Surveillance | Sustainable Agriculture | Sustainable Energy | Sustainable Transportation | Tax Avoidance | Technological Change | Technology Ethics | Tolerance & Inclusion | Trade Agreements | Treatment of Minorities | Unemployment | Urban Planning | War & Conflict | Water Quality | Water Security | | Working Conditions |
Social IssuesCurrent issues related to the quality of life of people and communities.Environmental IssuesThe mounting environmental problems and risks associated with the current economic activities and practices of modern economies.Political IssuesContemporary issues related to the political process itself such as the influence corporations exert over democratic processes.Economic IssuesCurrent issues related to the economy, economic systems and economic behavior.Technological IssuesThe fast pace of technological change and the likelihood this will only accelerate. This creates corresponding change to societies, cultures, economies, politics and the environment that create instability.Next: Social Issues
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