Civilization.

All problems humanity is facing and will continue to face going forward is the world population....... That's the root cause of all present and future problems

Climate change is not the greatest challenge of civilization. Climate change is a byproduct of a society that prioritizes poorly what we should be concerned with. This is due to a combination of dishonest leaders and massive mistrust in anyone outside your preconceived ideas.

If our society could properly focus on what is important, climate change and the problems it would cause for humanity has simple answers that we can put into place if we could figure out how to agree on facts and work together.

Politicians generally only look to the next election. Trump knows the coal mining and other industries which use fossil fuels are behind him, and the workers who are employed in these industries will re-elect him if he keeps his promise to trash all the green energy initiatives. I just hope all the other countries who have signed up to the Paris Climate Treaty keep to it, but we need the US on board too.

"Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies."
I quoted a tweet from someone else here because it captures in a nutshell how absurd it is to still be denying climate change and that mankind is predominantly responsible. This has been known now for 30 years and the evidence still being collected unambiguously supports this.
This is so much like when Big Tobacco created disinformation campaigns to confuse and cast doubt on cigarettes causing cancer. Now we have Big Oil with Trillions of dollars at stake trying to do the same thing and they know how to influence the government, they have politicians bought and paid for and they have a propaganda campaign where is no object.
This is so obvious, the science is clear, the evidence is clear, but it's easy to confuse the public.
United States is the only developed country, for example, where more than 60% of the population does not believe in Evolution. There is so much religious and political propaganda.
Yes, climate change is an existential threat even the Pentagon realizes this.
What do we have to lose by developing alternative, renewable and clean energy. Nothing to lose, everything to gain... so why are they trying stop it?

As humans in many cultures in many time periods we have destroyed our environment, causing the need to abandon cities (like Anchor Watt, many Mayan and Aztec cities and other ancient cities all around the world).

We evolved to survive immediate dangters and to supply immediate needs, but it doesn't appear to be hard wired into us to take care of our environment, and now we are destroying our entire planet, not just a few random local environments. We have few and swindling place to move to left on this planet.

not being able to find common ground something will always come up that mkes us right and them wrong no matter who we are it always happens

plastic!

Survival

Humans.

Advancement

The big question seems to be why aren't we... humanity/nations doing more... doing anything really significant about climate change? Maybe in dark back rooms in private meetings, the power-that-be don't want to actually do anything... not yet. Not until a large portion of the population is gone.

Problem is with short-term thinking. Getting a tax break at the expense of clean air and water for our children and grandchildren is a pretty bad investment. Makes sense if you only care about yourself, i.e. you’re a Republican.

human stupidity

Ignorance

Islam.
Humanity has a fair chance of dealing with global warming, but Islamic world conquest will result in the end of civilization.

at jorj. your words I quote from below. "at least the republicans aren't making false promises to get votes. And the dems are more evil?" -Excuse me, I can't be kind about this. Are you XXXXcking stupid?? What rock did crawl out from under?

In 5 billion years the sun will go red giant and swallow the earth - need to figure out a way to survive off this planet or we're doomed.

It doesn’t help that “Haarp” exists

How about peace? That might solve a multitude of problems

Humans

Long term, you are correct. In the short term, our greatest threat is the culture of greed, corruption, and ethnocentrism exemplified by Trump and his supporters.

Our greatest challenge is pulling soo many heads, out of soo many assess. I think once we figure that out, the rest will fall into place

I would have to say that accepting the fact that we are all human irregardless of the color of our skin, our country of origin, gender, religion (or lack thereof). How we treat each other because of our differences is appalling. We have so much potential but we hold ourselves back because we fail to accept our own differences. Whites and people of color, men and women, Christian and Muslim, rich and poor, we are all against ourselves and for what purpose? Where have we gotten by being against each other? We obviously haven't learned the lessons of the past and continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. We could do so much if we could just accept each other for who we are and quit harping about or differences and instead embrace them. We have a long way to go.

All of those statements are correct. I tend to look at root causes historically speaking. Disillusionment is the number one factor. Most people do not understand how civilization is fostered, controlled, and grown through the ages. The use of religion to manipulate the common consciousness has brought humanity to the current epoch in time. The belief in God as foster by the Abrahamic religions. Ibrahim. Judaism, Islam, Christianity. The world stage is set for war.

Modern Humans have grown into a greater conscious awareness. However the Sheeple hold the majority. The wealth of the world is in the hands of the Jewish/Ashkenazi Banking Families, fact. The US is a Christian Nation, we give billions to Israel for absolutly nothing. We are the most indebted nation in the world, and we are about to loose our position as the world reserve currency. Who do we owe money to? The constitutions allows us to print our own money, interest free. The federal reserve is a private corporation. All reserve banks are private corporations.

The paradigm that we face as a civilization, is indeed a Great one!! Global warming is a common occurance, we are going through a pole shift. Many scientist know this amd have communicated as much to the population. We do not know if the shift is quick, or takes decades, most scientist agree with the latter.

They, corporate controlled media, the US is a corporation, never give you whole truths. You are Citizenry, not the People as defined by the Constitution of/for the United States of America. If you understood history and new about the Founding Fathers, you would know this. They despised/hated democracies. They did not want to give you the right to vote, this is why you have an ellectoral college.

Disillusioment is the 1# factoral equation that we face as a problem as a civilisation. This is relative to ignorance of History and Law. What better way to control a society of humans than to introduce gods into the realm of everday consciousness to explain and give meaning to all existentialisms. What better way to be munchkins in the land of OZ.