Americans consider inequality world’s greatest danger

[damnedifIknow]

Nuclear weapons. Ethnic conflict. Global warming. Americans have a lot to be worried about these days. But what do they see as the biggest threat to the world? Inequality.

Americans aren’t alone. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, Europeans, too, rank inequality as the top threat. "

For the United States, religious and ethnic hatred comes in a close second, after inequality, but only 7 percent think AIDS and other diseases pose the greatest danger.

U.S. concerns have shifted over the years based on what’s most immediate on American minds. The first time Pew administered the survey, in 2002, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, one-third of Americans ranked nuclear proliferation the biggest threat to the world. By 2007, after the U.S. had been involved military in Afghanistan and Iraq, religious and ethnic hatred rose to the top. The percentage of Americans identifying inequality as the biggest concern has increased from 17 percent in 2007 to 27 percent today."

*And even though Americans as a whole think inequality poses the greatest danger, they continually underestimate just how severe the wealth gap between the rich and poor is — at least in this country,"

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/americans-consider-inequality-worlds-greatest-danger/

[Prophet 451]

1. I can't say they're wrong

but personally, I would hate put global warming at the top and inequality at 2. That said, dealing with one would probably help a lot with the other.

[Go Vols]

4. I think fixing #2

would help more than fixing just #1.

It would make way to fix #3.#4,ect.

[diabeticman]

2. It is the Greatest Danger that is the easiest to fix and is the most real to most people.

yes, all you listed is very dangerous but thankfully we have science to protect us from disease and Aids and thankfully Putin and Kim Jung un maybe crazy nuts but they aren't so crazy they are willing to set off a massive explosion to destroy the half the earth because they are also ego manics who won't risk putting themselves in danger...and let's face it all the best laid plans DO NOT lessen the fear of certain things.''

[kelliekat44]

3. We "consider it" the rest of the world "knows it." Unemployed and unappreciated and disrespected

citizenry are power kegs all over the world and at the root of every rebellion...not the "yearning for democracy" as the pundits and the rest of the GOP would have you believe. Egypt proves this.

[woo me with science]

5. That was a poorly constructed poll. "Inequality" was the closest answer to

unbridled corporatism and corporate takeover of governments...and all the other choices on the list were problems caused or extremely exacerbated by the takeover of governments by a wealthy, corrupt elite.

I answered "inequality" because it was the answer that came closest to identifying the real source of the global threat.