Humanity is facing a great many issues in its struggle to achieve sustainable Earth. This collection will focus on how, through experience, we learn about these issues and how we learn to improve them. Here is a non-exhaustive list of issues, topics and approaches, in alphabetical order:
Acidification
Activism
Adaptation
Agriculture
Air quality
Albedo
Alternative futures
Asylum seekers
Attitudes
Beliefs
Biodiversity
CH4
Child labour
Circular economy
Climate change
CO2
Common pool resources
Complexity
Conflict
Conservation
Contamination
Control
Corruption
Court cases
Costal erosion
Crisis
Culture
Debt
Decarbonization
Decision-making
Deforestation
Democracy
Desertification
Development
Disaster
Disease
Drought
Ecosystem collapse
Education
El Niño
Energy
Ethics
Extreme weather events
Fires
Fisheries
Flooding
Food
Forests
Forest fires
Gaia
Gender
Geoethics
Geopolitics
GHGs
Global warming
Greed
Growth
Habitat
Harvest yields
Hazards
Health
Homelessness
Housing
Human rights
Human trafficking
Hunger
Ice melt
Indigenous people
Inequality
Infrastructures
Injustice
Insect population collapse
Interdisciplinarity
Intergroup behavior
Journalism
Land rights
Legitimacy
Limits to growth
Migration
Mindfulness
Mining
Mono-crop agriculture
Multidisciplinarity
Natural hazards
Nature rights
Noise pollution
Organic food
Over-consumption
Ozone
Peace
Permaculture
Permafrost
Pesticides
Planetary boundaries
Plastics
Policy
Political extremism
Politics
Pollution
Population pressure
Poverty & wealth gap
Power
Prediction
Prejudice
Press freedom
Refugees
Resilience
Resource depletion
Responsibilities
Rivers
Sanitation
Sea level rise
Slavery
Social identity
Soil depletion
Soil erosion
Species extinction
Strategy
Systems of systems
Systems thinking
Tax havens
Team learning
The commons
Tourism
Tragedy of the commons
Transparency
Transport
Travel
Truth
Uncertainty
Unemployment
Urbanization
Vegetarian
Waste
Water
Water stress
Wealth gap
Well-being
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