global issues
Problems affecting everyone
Global issues are problems that affect people across national boundaries and require international cooperation to address.
Climate change, poverty, pandemic disease, nuclear proliferation, and human rights violations are common examples.
The term frames these challenges as shared rather than belonging to any single nation: We discussed global issues in my international relations course.
- air pollutionToxic atmospheric contamination
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- rising sea levelsIncreasing ocean elevation
- melting ice capsPolar ice sheets diminishing
- carbon footprintTotal greenhouse gases produced
ocean acidification · deforestation · corruption · economic inequality · fair trade · biodiversity loss · nuclear disarmament · environmental justice · sustainable development · refugee crises · human rights violations · forced displacement · water scarcity · world hunger · gender equity · desertification · migration policy · child labor
- Global Politicsforeign affairs, international affairs, global affairs, world politics, foreign relations
- world studiesgeography, history, cultures, nations, continents
- film festivalsfilm festival, film festivals, premieres, screenings, film screenings
- TEDTED Talks, TED-Ed, speakers, ideas, conference
- global mindsetglobal mindset, world view, global awareness, global citizenship, worldliness
global issuestrivialities
Insignificant matters
small stuff · trifles · minutiae · first-world problems · non-issues