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What is humanity's biggest problem?

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Submit your answer/guess. One. Short.
 
We are upper primates with cognitive ability that has developed much more quickly than our animal instincts have been shed. This has produced an unstable balance between the wonderful and terrible things that we are capable of as a species. Interestingly, when reading the Adam and Eve story through an allegorical lens, it describes this quite well, IMO.
 
We are upper primates with cognitive ability that has developed much more quickly than our animal instincts have been shed. This has produced an unstable balance between the wonderful and terrible things that we are capable of as a species.

You might be in the right frame of mind but you haven't given an answer.
 
That is the answer, IMO.

Stating one thing in the very large set of imbalanced wonderful and terrible things would be an answer.
 
Enough healthy people to provide the labor necessary for economic growth for the well-being of all, not just the few.
 
It's not as abstract as 'greed' nor the answers like that.
 
Enough healthy people to provide the labor necessary for economic growth for the well-being of all, not just the few.

Economic growth?! Chuckle.
 
My answer is that the development of cognitive ability has outstripped our ability to evolve past our animal instincts and tribalism. Some cite cooked food as a potential contributor. https://www.scientificamerican.com/...as-cooking-a-pivotal-step-in-human-evolution/

If one checks the record, it'll (somewhat) verify that I came up with cooked food (versus meat; lots of living things eat meat) as the reason why humans evolved.

Still, you haven't narrowed your answer down to something tangible.
 
Money; it's a very addictive drug to too many.
 
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