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This document lists 99 potential threats, harms, and problems facing society, including issues related to health (e.g. cancer, heart disease), social problems (e.g. racism, sexism, poverty), environmental degradation (e.g. pollution, climate change), and other challenges (e.g. war, crime, economic difficulties). It covers a wide range of issues at various scales from individual to societal levels.

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This document lists 99 potential threats, harms, and problems facing society, including issues related to health (e.g. cancer, heart disease), social problems (e.g. racism, sexism, poverty), environmental degradation (e.g. pollution, climate change), and other challenges (e.g. war, crime, economic difficulties). It covers a wide range of issues at various scales from individual to societal levels.

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1. Sellouts.

10. Too many guns.


11. Racism in society at large.
12. Sexism in society at large.
13. A low quality and unequal public educational system.
14. Suicide.
15. Lack of health insurance.
16. Mental illness.
17. Government eavesdropping.
18. Auto accidents.
19. Rampant obesity.
2. Poverty.
20. Homelessness.
21. Civilian fatalities in foreign wars.
22. Civilian non-fatal casualties in foreign wars.
23. Military fatalities in foreign wars.
24. Military non-fatal casualties in foreign wars.
25. Unwise deregulation of financial markets.
26. Diabetes.
27. Unemployment.
28. Rape.
29. New and dangerous varieties of infectious disease.
3. Global warming.
30. Lack of socioeconomic mobility.
31. The mathematical impossibility of an adequately funded retirement.
32. Student debt.
33. Water pollution
34. Air pollution.
35. A criminal justice system that favors the rich.
36. Inability to enact meaningful campaign finance reform.
37. Gerrymandering.
38. AIDS
39. Everything too expensive.
4. Heart disease.
40. Low wage dead end jobs.
41. Alcoholism.
42. Drug addiction.
43. Drought.
44. The degradation of our nation's bridges, highways, and other infrastructure.
45. Lack of knowledge about the long-term effects of industrial chemicals.
46. The general sense of ennui that accompanies modernity.
47. Alzheimer's.
48. Bureaucracy.
49. Narcissism.
5. A loss of perspective on what is and is not important.
50. Cockblocking.
51. Too many hours spent sitting.
52. Crying babies.
53. Bullies.
54. This weather we're having.
55. Gentrification.
56. Erectile dysfunction.
57. Hurricanes.
58. Factory farms.
59. Police brutality.
6. Cancer.
60. Insider trading.
61. Non-fatal STDs.
62. Cultural snobbery.
63. Credit card fraud.
64. Loss of wetlands.
65. Orbiting space pollution.
66. Joint disease.
67. Food-borne illness.
68. Sophisticated international organized criminal enterprises.
69. Street gangs.
7. Loneliness.
70. Surly or rambunctious teenagers.
71. Prison gangs.
72. Traumatic brain injury associated with sports.
73. Racism in media and entertainment.
74. Sexism in media and entertainment.
75. Simple trips and falls.
76. Airline delays.
77. Drowning.
78. Muggings.
79. Light pollution.
8. Mass extinction of nonhuman species.
80. Rats.
81. Nothing good to watch on TV.
82. Dog or cat bites.
83. Built-in obsolescence of electronic devices.
84. Wildfires.
85. Structure fires.
86. Ugly clothes.
87. Botched plastic surgery.
88. Tardiness.
89. Unintentional ingestion of poison.
9. The misguided war on drugs.
90. Attacks by charismatic megafauna.
91. Defamatory online smears.
92. Missed child support payments.
93. Snakebites.
94. Inability to get into desirable nightclubs.
95. Deaths caused by "extreme" sports.
96. Potential asteroid strikes.
97. Peeling paint.
98. Gingivitis.
99. Terrorism.

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