What is the biggest problem on earth today?

Humans are the biggest problem. We cause most of them with our greed & stupidity.

I think the biggest problem for all is that the planet is so infested with human. so unless we start to learn on how to live in harmony with nature and others, I guess it wouldn't be long until we destroy mother earth or starts killing each other in the name of survival.

the biggest problem is that people dont think much and pay attention towards solving the smaalest of problems in life....and this leads to frustration and rising tempers and can cause a whole lot of problems

Not taking good care of one another. That pretty much puts everything under the same blanket. :-)

I think it's greed. It's every where. If humans will only consume what they need then we will not be having problems that the world is facing.

I think it's the lack of mutual respect and understanding in the world. The developed countries should know the rationality of the different opinion and policy.

the biggest problem on earth to day is pollution and garbage. it is affecting our weather and changing it.

The war in Iraq and the earthquake in Haiti

garbage, pollution, people

I think its global warming. You always hear about it on the News. Now that I have seen Al Gore's movie The Inconvenient Truth. I now know that the Earth will completely change for the worse if we don't act right away to deal with this problem.

of course it must be global warming! it's really bad hearing that the ice in the poles are melting so fast. the seasons are not like ten years ago. people like to cut trees in the forest without doing any preventive attempts such as re-planting the trees. losing trees means losing a big amount of oxygen and fresh air, or even affect weather and season!

hey in current situation the biggest problem the earth is facing is terrorism and global warming . Yes there are other issues but these two are the most dangerous . Unless and until people are gonna be educated on this topic i don't see how people living in earth are gonna be happy . cheers

i think the biggest problem is greed and lusting. the reason for this is that some persons now a days can be so greedy for other peoples` things that they would do anything in order to get it. Also people can get so caught up at times in doing illegal measures in order to get rich over night instead of really working legally towards it.

The biggest problem the world has is education, no not that people are not being educated. But rather that educators are not teaching just the basics, they now think that it is their place to teach their political veiws. What is wrong with kids learning to reading, writing, math, sceince and geography and then finding their own political veiws. Tadays kids are being tought that they deserve this or that, they don't learn to work for what they want. On the play grounds they learn games where no one loses, then they get older and find out that sometimes you lose out on this job or that they can't have the corner office just because they believe that they deserve it. And as for having uniformed wealth, would you bust your butt to invent something if you knew that you had to share the rewards of your hard work with people that did nothing to help. Bet not. If there is no reward for hard work people will not work hard. Learn alittle about the communist take over of Russia, they first gave all workers the same pay, and found that productivity dropped. Learn from history and then perhaps we can improve the world.

Well one may say that there are problems that the human race is facing today. But at a larger level one may think that the problem that the mankind is facing today is something that each life forms on the earth are facing. Unemployment, development, diseases, extremism, terrorism etc. are some of the problems that people will name that they are facing. But at the same time we must remember that each time we "develop" in our own terms we are polluting the earth. The so called developed nations are not developed in real sense. And if the whole world uses resources as they are using then the earth will require the services of about 25 earths. Is that possible. Leave the world, if either India or China develop and use resources to that extent then too they will require the services of about 3 earths. Here I may state that I said only either of India or China and not both. So are really the developed nations developed or are the developing nations really developing. The answer is no, they are not developed. They are in a mad rush towards destruction. I may sound like an extremist. And there are very small number of people who will support my view on this topic. But still I want to stress that the so called developed nations are the most primitive kind of people, the real fools. One who does not know what to extract and what not to, is a fool. It is like milking the teats of a cow after all the milk has been drained. Will it milk. So how will the earth sustain such a huge population if they get developed. And if I speak my heart out no one has a real solution for this. But small efforts can save the planet. We should stop buying things that are not extremely necessary, we should use personal modes of commutation as much less as possible. Public modes are better. Turn green where ever we could. The less we buy the less we pollute. We should use less of the packaged food and less of everything. Less of electricity, fuel, paper. We should believe and practice recycling. And I think that turning green and respecting nature will indeed help the earth.

This may not be very popular to say but the biggest problem is over population. Everything else, dwindling resourches, pollution, starvation, etc. stem from this one thing. And it will only get worse in the future. Eventually it will become a self correcting problem because of disease, starvation and war.

I think terrorism is the most biggest problem in the world, it is human made deadliest problem than any others naturally occurring problems. Anyone can be targeted by terrorism. It is spreading like an epidemic. I think terrorism should be stopped first. yea there are also many problems like pollution, poverty, lack of education, naturally occurring disasters. After terrorism I think Global warming is the most biggest problem. Due to industrialization, increase in automobiles, cutting of trees etc etc the carbon dioxide level in atmosphere is increasing day by day. Due to this the polar ice caps are melting. Every country and every person should take measures on reducing carbon dioxide level.

There is no problem on earth today. Without problems there are no success stories thats why problems exist. On the part that there should be wealth for every human that is unacceptable and unimaginable. you cannot tell the aborigines and other native people to abandon their culture. in fact, its a lot more stressful world if everybody is rich. the more money the more the technology and the more our world disintegrates.

Well I think the biggest problem on earth is the intolerance and arrogance of human beings, intolerance to other people that don't look or speak the same languages than them, intolerance to projects environmentalist problems. We think we are infallible and we don't realize that we are just another creatures more in this earth. We attack everybody that doesn't think as we do, that believe in things that we doesn't, we attack people with different life styles than us. We quickly judge everybody without thinking what are the reasons that those people had to act the way they did.

Well, that's an easy one...the former Bush Administration.