The Grand Challenge (Civilization Ending Challenge)
Avoiding collapse: Grand challenges for science and society to solve by 2050.
"We maintain that humanity’s grand challenge is solving the intertwined problems of human population growth and overconsumption, climate change, pollution, ecosystem destruction, disease spillovers, and extinction, in order to avoid environmental tipping points that would make human life more difficult and would irrevocably damage planetary life support systems." [1]
Table 1. Environmental issues of key concern