"Public Enemy Number One" is, was, and maybe always shall be the microorganisms we share this planet with. The little buggers keep evolving and we humans are too stupid to realise that abusing the power of antibiotic chemicals is a recipe ultimately for public health disaster. [We are feeding antibiotics willy-nilly into farm animals before those animals are even sick; this is the perfect system for breeding robust resistance to antibiotics into the very bugs we want to keep at bay.]
But microbes will always be with us, so challenges to the health system are and will remain business as usual. We just need to acknowledge that too often the biggest health problems often arise from our willful ignorance and mismanagement.
Public Enemy #2
The next biggest challenge but probably the biggest-threat-with-a-deadline is ocean acidification. "Maybe no corral left by 2050" and "No fish to go with your chips" after 2100.
PE #3
After that clearly is global climate change. Only fools are still denying the reality of humanly created carbon dioxide increasing in the atmosphere and provoking the increase of heat energy stored in the atmosphere and ocean.
PE #4
Then comes bureaucracy which too arises from the inability or unwillingness of many humans to confront the truth of their lives. Maybe the work I do in the Sausage Factory leads me to have a jaundiced view because the bulk of the "customers" I have to deal with are people who don't understand some of the basic concepts of the Sausage-making process.
But microbes will always be with us, so challenges to the health system are and will remain business as usual. We just need to acknowledge that too often the biggest health problems often arise from our willful ignorance and mismanagement.
Public Enemy #2
The next biggest challenge but probably the biggest-threat-with-a-deadline is ocean acidification. "Maybe no corral left by 2050" and "No fish to go with your chips" after 2100.
PE #3
After that clearly is global climate change. Only fools are still denying the reality of humanly created carbon dioxide increasing in the atmosphere and provoking the increase of heat energy stored in the atmosphere and ocean.
PE #4
Then comes bureaucracy which too arises from the inability or unwillingness of many humans to confront the truth of their lives. Maybe the work I do in the Sausage Factory leads me to have a jaundiced view because the bulk of the "customers" I have to deal with are people who don't understand some of the basic concepts of the Sausage-making process.
