Sentence examples for problems facing humankind from inspiring English sources

As Jeffrey Sachs said last week, the problems facing humankind in the 21st century are of an altogether different order to those that faced our forebears.

The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world's people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind today.

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012).1 The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world's people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind today.

The preceding Section has shown that scarcity of water is one of the major global problems facing humankind at the moment and that it is likely to be an ever increasing problem in the future.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Global warming, or climate change if you prefer, is the greatest threat facing humankind this century.

Climate change, the greatest crisis facing humankind, wasn't mentioned even once.

Health and sustainability are two of the most daunting global challenges facing humankind today.

Energy crisis is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century facing humankind due to the excessive dependence on fossil fuels.

This is the single most urgent issue facing humankind.

Without exaggeration, it is likely the most important issue facing humankind today.