The most important and pressing problem facing us is the out of control plague of Homo Sapiens.
Conveniently ignored in this essay.

Climate Change. But much more than you think.

It's happened every two hundred years of so. And it is mother nature who turns on the events - and they can be devastating. Even medium sized events cause winds, floods, droughts,food shortages, epidemics, and political fallout ... a cycle that in the past took about ten years. It has been said that the French Revolution, was encouraged by weird end of the world feeling caused by noxious gases that killed men and beast on the field. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki

The Laki 1783 explosion was the first time that some connection was made between distant volcanic events and Climate Change. That's why history searches don't make a connection between what happened in Indonesia and the climate in Europe. Yet the 535 AD Krakatoa event was huge and caused the "Dark Ages" when the sun cast no shadow in Europe for years. The resultant crop failures encircled the world and History rewrote itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

I wrote an article about major Climate Change events and Volcanoes years ago. See http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/back-issues/new-dawn-137-march-april-2013

We should prepare food reserves for the when the next event happens. And big or small it will.

Hawaii has volcanoes and Obama and Pearl Harbour, causing swamps and Trumps.

nothing is more wicked than the filth the authors of the 'safe'school program perverted people want to indoctrinate young kids with. They are closely related to padeophile priests.

As bad as these very real problems are and include self destruction as a species, by just emulating frogs being very slowly brought to the boil, and just too far gone to react in a timely self survival fashion!

Instead of dealing with this threat and just by using the brains we were born with, we have this ongoing contest of failed rat eat rat extreme capitalism and failed pig eat all it can then come back for seconds, socialism. By the powerful who can't let go of their FAILED, extreme ideological (inmates running the asylum) imperatives!

Both of these failed ideologies seem to favor self serving oligarchs over ordinary folk. And based on thoroughly disgraced economic constructs, that effectively concentrate our finite wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

And ably assisted by clearly corrupt public officials, without whom and their covert cooperation? None of this self defeating rubbish would be possible.

And unless reversed and given we actually survive? Will see a return to the dark ages, replete with slavery and child labor,[already happening,] as we descend, chasing the lowest common denominator and the savagery that then must also prevail?
Alan B.

I second Ateday.

The only wicked problem is this out-of-control plague of Homo Sapiens.

If we cannot or would not control our sexual/procreative urges, then mother nature will do the job for us to correct this mistake. The human race is not indispensable.

Thank heavens the government is finally getting its act together on gender based vilification and hate speech to effectively gag the abuse that substitutes civilised debate from the pen of dark angels merely pretending to be civilised human beings!?

For the last time runner, take the drown em out, earphones out of your ears, to just listen.

Scientific research has found a gay gene.

YES, THERE IS A GAY GENE.

Not one, but several down near the bottom of the double helix, DNA spiral!

As always with brainwashed from birth, troglodytes. Brainwashed belief trumps science.

Thus we have a flat earth society, bone pointing witch doctors and runner and his cohort? Who simply conflate bull queers and peadophiles as belonging to the normal human abberation known as the gay community!

And a very successful ploy by the worst offending peadophiles, hiding in plain sight and getting away with their inherently evil, covert activities by screaming their foam laced invective at the gay community!

With who the PIOUS PULPIT POUNDING, hiding in plain sight, offending paedophile priests have absolutely nothing in common with, RUNNER!
Alan B.

The most frightening Wicked problem today is that we have academics/politicians, who think like this bloke.

Quote; in the 1970s we instituted the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Today we could, if we wanted, get rid of nuclear weapons altogether.

Anyone who actually believes this must live in a cacoon, or under a rock. Has he not heard od North Korea, or Iran. Does the fool really think either of them are going to give up their nuclear weapons, now they have them.

Does he also think Israel would survive for more than a month if it did not have it's nuclear weapons. Only a fool dreamer could believe there is any chance of them letting theirs go.

That these dills get into parliaments, or get their stupidity published is yet another "Wicked problem" we need to solve, or he would have us living only under the control of Kim Jong-un.

With friends like this bloke, who needs enemies?

Australia has the uranium to make a nuclear family-size nuke for the Developing world through overseas aid $3.8 billion this year. Unemployment here will hit rock-bottom / ground zero and Koreans will be invasion-proof like Bolivia and Botswana. Japan won't get any nuke-fitted whales or elephant ivory.

"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out."

Isn't paranoia fun ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

The 'servants' perspective, from the Australian Public Service Commissioner, [more limited than I would have thought},
http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/archive/publications-archive/tackling-wicked-problems

Meanwhile, the political 'Masters', the political elite, and the taxpayer-funded $1.3billion 'their' publicity machine the ABC, have had a much more pressing 'Wicked' matter on their minds,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-13/same-sex-marriage-traditional-electorates-may-be-ignored-by-mps/8941410

Latham WAS right, issue like 'Struggle Towns', unemployment, drugs etc are way less interesting to federal politicians,

"Former Labor leader Mark Latham slams Labor over gay marriage

FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham has slammed his party’s “obsession” with gay marriage saying it should focus on the nation’s “Struggle Streets” instead.
...
He said the biggest social issue facing Austalia was unemployment, drug use and homelessness in suburbs such as Mt Druitt which was the focus of the SBS documentary, Struggle Street.

“If you are interested in equality and social justice in Australia then what was the really big event in the month of May,” he said. “We had the Struggle Street documentary which revealed that in the nation’s public housing estate, most notably in Mt Druit people live in conditions that you wouldn’t wish upon your dogs. Absolute chaos, despair and hopelessness in their lives.
“And surely, you would have expected a serious national response from the party of social justice?
“We didn’t hear anything.
“They’re obsessed, instead, by gay marriage.”

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/gay-marriage/former-labor-leader-mark-latham-slams-labor-over-gay-marriage/news-story/6c89f7077536bf321ee40c25946e6f0f

'Wicked' problems?

What about the wicked problem' that confronts the electorate and grows perennially, the federal politicians who are exceedingly well paid and enjoy golden entitlements forever more, but pose and pose and do squat where the real wicked problems are concerned?

Jack Sprat ate no “phat”, and his “wicked” wife was very popular after dark!

LeoJ…

There is no sympathy for the socially excluded on OLO. This is the heart of “Jack” town!

Leoj

PS maybe rewrite your post in Latin, see if that innovation elicits a response.

diver dan,

You reckon I was a bit lateral in my posts?

Setting out to compare and contrast the differences between Sir Humphrey's view of good governance and that of his 'master', politician Hacker?

And the gulf between what both find important, the 'wicked problems' to occupy themselves and what the exasperated public, the 'punters'(sic), believe should be the priorities?

Buddha ( peace be upon him) was a prophet of holy war.The Sri Lankan Buddhist government has been accused of sponsoring and aiding terrorism against the country's population during the later part of the 20th century. The government and the Armed Forces have been accused of attacks on civilians, indiscriminate shelling and bombing, extrajudicial killings, rape, torture, disappearance, arbitrary detention, forced displacement and economic blockade. According to Amnesty International Sri Lanka's laws, government and society facilitated these accusations. Myanmar's Buddhist army has a country and terror state which explodes Karen Christians and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army who collect money for alcoholics outside pubs. Buddha is hell.

DD, de facto, damnant quod non inteligunt, de profundis.
Deus ex machina?
Dum spiro spero,ceiteris paribus, a posteriori, currente calamo, gradu diverso via una, me judice, mens sana in corpore sano, labor omnia vincit!
Vox populi,vox dei.
Vale. Alan B.

Roma locuta; causa finita est.
No.

Alan B

'gay gene'. You appear to have a confused gene.

leoj…

Poor men have no friends…true. So why do poor men waste their vote?

NNN

You could be a poofter each way of a full quid, me thinks…with our old mate AB there is no doubt…:-))

Yes diver dan , what was the question again?

diver dan,

One vote is likely worthless, that is true.

What matters is to be one of the small groups that government policy and the implementation of it, favours. It is all in the rules.

One of the perennially most favoured groups would be miners. Then there are those who spill down from that, businesses that would be most resistant to fairness in taxing miners because it indirectly affects their business too.

Wicked problems.

leoj…

I totally understand. This is a government totally engrossed in industry needs. The 23 million inhabitants are totally irrelevant to them. It's why the Labor Party will win at the next election, they become the spinners of the biggest lie, that they care! The only time in the cycle that one vote counts!

NNN

you and Al have answered the question between you! No further questions, you may sit down now!

"No further questions"
why?

You know the sound when you blow up a balloon and hold the nozzle just the right way and let the air out it makes a long loud fart sound... ?
That's honestly all I can think of after reading this...

I want to share this 3 minute video dated a week ago, so that maybe others can see what I see.

http://youtu.be/eXDTTjgs8nY

- So the U.S. now purportedly has airlifted ISIS commanders from Deir Ezzor.
It's interesting they mentioned Coalition forces 'accidental' attack on SAA forces in September last year, prior to an attack upon SAA by IS, because Australia was involved in that.

So are we supporting ISIS?
Sure looks like it to me.

I think about news cycles and the endless drone on and on about the same old bs issues... Agenda's of the day.
It's all crap, all of it.

Must be about due for another false flag gas attack so they can keep up the 'Assad must go' line...
Just wait for it....
Western Nations Foreign Ministers are going to need to come out and tell their nations people how evil Assad is, when he's been fighting IS for 6yrs...

You talk about wicked events?
It's all bs, ALL propaganda for an agenda.
And you wouldn't know real wicked events if they bit you on the face, that's pretty much all I can say.

Remember how we had to take down Ghaddafi?
Who knows about the public slave auctions now held in Libya?
Anyone?
I guess that's a win for US democracy then...
You're all to dumbed down to actually be informed.

And we all wanna whinge over SSM whining because someones feelings might be hurt.
Think of the Yazidi girls and if you don't know who they are look them up.
Are we supporting ISIS? ARE WE?
I'd like to go full circle by closing with that balloon / fart sound...
It's all total bullcrap.

Veritatis usque stercilinium cathedra censoris.
Et tu Brute.

Id est vitulum plaustro , tota armentum boum , bovum stercus.
Hail Caesar.

nnn,
So out of curiosity I placed your comments into google translate:

'Veritatis usque stercilinium cathedra censoris.
Et tu Brute.'
= MANURE seat to censor the truth. And you Brutus.

'Id est vitulum plaustro , tota armentum boum , bovum stercus.
Hail Caesar.'
= That is, the calf kine to the cart, and the whole herd of oxen, ox dung. Hail Caesar.

Not exactly sure what to make of it...

Yeah that's how it came out when I back-tracked.
Put in :[ it's all total bullcrap .Armchair critic] and that's what you get. I'm working on i

Cunctus taurum stercum est. Sedda censor.
That should do it but lexilogos won't look at it. The adjective has declension to match the noun and very nice too but the sedda may need a bit more polish.

Hi nnn,
Ahh... I see where you're going; love your work.