What is the great issue of our time?

[Onlooker]

[meganmonkey]

1. Other: Learning how they all relate

You can't seperate them. You can't seperate globalism from poverty from terrorism from environmentalism from....

:shrug:

[LWolf]

4. You nailed it. n/t

[Solly Mack]

9. exactly

[Rex]

2. Bush vs Gore

Money is the root of all evil.

[leftofthedial]

3. apathy

[NEOBuckeye]

6. Ignorance and Apathy

Who knows? Who cares?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Strawberry or Chocolate?

At least to most of the American electorate.

[slackmaster]

7. Our disgraceful ongoing refusal to adopt and embrace the Metric System

Damn shame, that.

[porphyrian]

8. It is impossible for us to know objectively what the great issue is.

We are part of the issue and unable to look at the big picture without prejudice and preconception. Only future generations will know for sure, and be able to call us all so fucking stupid for being responsible for what we leave them. That isn't to suggest that we can't guess the right answer, or even deal with it effectively, although it is unlikely.

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. Apathy - everything else is a byproduct eom

[Greyhound]

11. Globalization didn't quite cover it so I voted other. n/t

[Kolesar]

14. DU could sure use a globalization forum ... n/t

[Tesha]

12. Overpopulation -- the root of most other problems.

(With ignorance its haindmaiden.)

Tesha

[JackNewtown]

13. The WOT nt

[welshTerrier2]

15. Other: none of the above

Power, especially in the US but certainly worldwide, has been increasingly centralized into the hands of fewer and fewer people ... the agenda for the "power elite" is twofold: the acquisition of more power and the acquisition of wealth ... the vehicle for the power elite is the multi-national corporation ...

All of the greatest "issues of our times" on the list are affected by the inability of citizens to control their own destinies as the power elite consolidate their stranglehold on the levers of power ...

Until there is a real populist uprising to overthrow the corporate agenda, especially in the US which is, after all, the "heart of the beast", nothing, absolutely nothing, will change for the better ...