Global warming and rising levels of pollution.
The context is a community being transformed by increasing immigration and rising levels of poverty and unemployment.
Encouragingly, firms reported increased demand from the domestic market and rising levels of new business from overseas.
High and rising levels of income inequality are slowing the rate at which economic growth cuts poverty.
Provincial cities and rural areas have suffered greatly, with shuttered-up streets and rising levels of poverty.
The two most obvious are low levels of investment and high and rising levels of government debt.
Higher inflation, weak wage growth and rising levels of consumer debt are expected to weigh on households next year as the economy adjusts to the post-referendum environment.
Methane is a particularly powerful greenhouse gas and rising levels of it in the atmosphere are only likely to accelerate global warming.
Diplomats said that with the EU already destabilised by the Brexit vote and rising levels of Euroscepticism, any squabble over the council's leadership would be damaging.
And the same analysis could apply to the UK, where insecure employment, low wages and rising levels of inequality are the source of anger, and not EU membership.
#5: High and rising levels of inequality, supported by the shampoo cycle, have contributed to unbalanced accumulations of student debt, with negative implications for upward mobility.
