Yet the water crisis challenges even the richest among us.
The ecological crisis challenges us to be reasonable.
"In times of crisis, challenges and success stories are more important than ever," says Jorgen Petterson.
That's because every crisis challenges the status quo and in so doing creates the opportunity for something new to emerge.
The refugee crisis challenges Catholics in Europe directly in this regard.
THE post-crisis challenge for central bankers has long seemed easy to describe.
The migrant and refugee crisis challenged the principle of open borders.
The crisis challenged the foundation stones of the long-dominant neoliberal ideology but it seemed to emerge largely unscathed.
"Especially as the computer throws all the design arts into a crisis challenging the hand as a tool of creative thinking".
And with the financial crisis challenging some of the fundamentals of Anglo-American-dominated capitalism, France's competing vision of a Europe with greater economic coordination is gaining some momentum.
"Panic is the last thing we need," says William Ulrich, president of the Soquel, Calif.-based Tactical Strategy Group and author of The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century.
