What Is the Most Important Issue in the World?

Firinn Taisdeal
3 min readNov 1, 2022

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The answer is clear and unequivocal.

In the conventional media, on social media, on talk shows, in large global conferences, in governments all over the world, there is massive and extended and detailed discussion of a vast range of serious issues. Yet within these many and multifarious discussions of so many issues, there is a simple yet obvious question that is never raised:

What is the most important issue in the world?

The answer is clear, unequivocal and also inarguable. The answer is also meticulously avoided, in every discussion of every issue. Even the question itself is never raised.

Yet the most important issue in the world is also the source of all the other issues, so as a matter of both priority and efficiency it makes obvious sense to deal with the most important problem first, particularly because that one problem creates all the other problems.

Yet not only is the most important issue not dealt with at all, a pretense reigns and is carefully maintained that the central causal issue does not even exist.

Again, what is that most important of all issues, the one that creates all of the others?

Let us proceed stepwise toward identification of that issue, by addressing a range of issues commonly seen as of great importance.

Is ending war the most important issue in the world?

No, it is not.

Is ending hunger the most important issue in the world?

No, it is not.

Is ending poverty and gross inequality the most important issue in the world?

No, it is not.

Is ending racism and destructive prejudice the most important issue in the world?

Again no, it is not.

Is ending sexism, misogyny and violence against women the most important issue in the world?

Sadly no, it is not.

Is better education perhaps the most important issue in the world, because it may hold the key to solving other problems?

No. Still off the mark, but getting a bit closer.

Is the impending climate catastrophe, global environmental degradation, mass extinction of crucial species, and the collapse of entire eco systems across the planet the most important issue in the world?

Well, that certainly sounds serious, but is still not the core issue.

Again, what is the central cause of all major problems in the world?

What issue is the source of all of the issues listed above? What one issue is responsible for every one of the serious issues already mentioned?

Before proceeding further, let us also ask why the most important issue, the one issue that creates all the others, would be so carefully avoided in all discussions. Why would even mention of the central cause of all the major problems in the world be a forbidden topic, subject to a meticulous and thorough pretense that the issue does not even exist, even though its existence is painfully clear?

The Answer Is Clear

By this point, you’ve had some time to carefully consider the answer. Again, the answer is completely obvious, especially in that the one issue that is the most important of all is also the fundamental cause of all major problems in the world. Solve that one issue, and all of the other problems are also solved.

You’ve now had so much time to consider the matter, and the answer is so obvious, that it isn’t necessary to cite the answer here.

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Firinn Taisdeal

I am an author and inventor. My first book was about people’s relationship with their possessions and how possessions change us, for better and for worse.