What do all of you think will be the greatest challenges facing humanity in the next decades?

I am just curious what the people on here think.

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I think the depletion of natural resources will be the big one. I also think though that most of the future challenges are increasingly interrelated and hard to separate from each other.

Grace Doughty - 8 years, 4 months ago

Sleeplessness

Ojas Vishwakarma - 8 years, 4 months ago

Ethics concerning robots if they ever become sentient. I'm actually kinda afraid of that one.

A Former Brilliant Member - 8 years, 4 months ago

I think it's clearly a large-scale conflict between China and the USA

Tim Ye - 8 years, 4 months ago

Yeah, I think that its getting very tense between USA and other nations. That could be a growing problem...

Sherry Sarkar - 8 years, 4 months ago

i believe that a conflict between them is unlikely now a days, those countries are still very dependent on each other economically, engage in an armed conflict provides only desavantages for both of them.

Gabriela Rosin - 7 years, 7 months ago

I think getting along with each other might continue to be the big one.

Ingrid Svensson - 8 years, 4 months ago

I think religious extremism and attempts to grab power by non-state actors will be the biggest challange because countries can resolve issues by diplomacy but handling non-state actors is very tough.

armaan bhullar - 8 years, 4 months ago

Pollution. Global Warming. A possible Ice age. That kind of stuff

Tyler Zhu - 8 years, 4 months ago

can global warming create an ice age

Vishnu Valsalan - 8 years, 4 months ago

Yes it can create an ice age..

Ojas Vishwakarma - 8 years, 4 months ago

The quest of power might led us to a third world war. Other than this, the way young generation is being brought up, loss of moral values and ethics will be a huge problem. See, it keeps everything in place.

Aisha Nasir - 8 years, 4 months ago

From the ratio of participants answering correctly challenges on this forum, I think that the greatest challenge facing the humanity, is an excess of mathematicians compared to a shortage of physicists:)

N K - 8 years, 4 months ago

surviving the stupid people and their stupid decisions like religion, politics, war , etc

PRANAV JEEVAN P - 8 years, 4 months ago

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`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$