Ableism | Access to Education |
Accessibility for People With Disabilities | Addiction |
Ageism | Agricultural Runoff |
Air Pollution | Animal Rights |
Automobile, Bicycle & Pedestrian Accidents | Avalanches |
Aviation Accidents | Building Safety |
Bureaucratic Inefficiency | Child Mortality |
Climate Change | Corporate Accountability |
Corporate Influence over Governments | Corporate Oppression |
Corporate Tax Avoidance | Corporate Transparency |
Corruption | Cost of Healthcare |
Cost of Living | Cost of Nutrition |
Crime | Cronyism |
Cybercrime | Decline of Coral Reefs |
Deforestation | Desertification |
Destruction of Ecosystems | Disasters |
Discrimination | Disease |
Droughts | Earthquakes & Tsunami |
Elitism | Environmental Disasters |
Environmental Justice | Existential Risk |
Extinctions | Fires & Wildfires |
Floods | Food Safety |
Food Security | Fraud |
Government Oppression | Government Transparency |
Habitat Destruction | Habitat Fragmentation |
High Inflation, Stagflation & Hyperinflation | Homelessness |
Housing Affordability | Indoor Air Quality |
Infrastructure Failures | Lack of Economic Opportunity & Participation |
Lack of Public Space & Green Space / Freedom of Movement | Land Degradation |
Landslides | Marine Debris & Microplastics |
Maritime Disasters | Misinformation & Disinformation |
Monopolies | Nuclear Incidents |
Obesity | Online Safety |
Pandemics | Poverty |
Privacy | Product Safety |
Public Safety | Public Security |
Quality of Education | Racism |
Radioactive Waste | Recessions & Depressions |
Red Tape | Regressive Taxation |
Rent Seeking | Resource Depletion |
Rights & Freedoms | Rights of the Child & Child Welfare |
Sexism | Shortages |
Social & Cultural Oppression | Social Isolation |
Space Junk | Sports Injuries |
Starvation & Hunger | Sustainable Energy |
Tax Evasion | Technology Risks |
Terrorism | Toxic Waste |
Transportation Safety | Unemployment |
Unhappiness | Unhealthy & Unsafe Products |
Unhealthy Lifestyles (e.g. sedentary lifestyles) | War & Conflict |
Waste Disposal (e.g. plastic that is burned and not recycled) | Water Pollution |
Water Scarcity & Water Security | Workplace Accidents |
Social Issues
Social issues are problems and risks that impact the quality of life of people and communities.
Environmental Problems
Destruction of the natural environment of planet Earth and its ecosystems.
Economic Problems
Problems, instability and risks that impact the economic processes and markets that sustain the quality of life of nations.
Education Issues
Education systems and institutions that fail to deliver efficient and effective benefits to society, communities and individuals.
Government & Political
Problems related to government and the political process.
Local Issues
Problems that are specific to a place such as a city, town or neighborhood.
Global Problems
Problems that span borders such that they require cooperation between nations to solve.
Intractable Problems
Problems that are difficult to solve due to their overall complexity, pervasiveness or entrenchment. These are broad problems that have received much attention without any clear solution.
