This is like the "I'm trying to love you" thread, except it actually has a cogent point to make. Where do I begin?
Agriculture
Herbicides, pesticides, GMO's.... Monsanto owns virtually everything, and only looks to be making its monopoly complete. People in California VOTE AGAINST labeling GMO food products! THEY DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE EATING! And as Monsanto knows, throw enough money at a problem and it goes away. Never mind if it's going to give us all cancer 20 years from now.
Environment
We're doing our very best to pollute ourselves right out of any clean water supply. The air is so bad in some places (like China) that THEY ACTUALLY SELL FRESH AIR IN A CAN. And perhaps most amazingly of all, we're still chopping away at the Amazon, attempting to destroy what is best personified as the 'lungs of the Earth'.
Politics
Such an absolute joke that I don't think I need to go there. You're all smart enough. The (very) few honest individuals have their motions crushed by the almighty filibuster, lobbied interests, or media smear campaigns.
Culture and "Society"
War
The most powerful nation in the world, and America is really just Israel's b*tch...
Economy
DEAR GOD, WE NEED TO SAVE THE ECONOMY!!! Never mind the homeless, impoverished, and the starved. Those heroes on Wall St. need their bonuses, god damn it!
It's 5 A.M. here, I must have just woken up lonely. I hate to be a pessimist, but there are two real conclusions I can make here.
1.) I would take great comfort in knowing that I'm on my way out, and see no point whatsoever to start a family (so I can pass these problems on to another generation) or to invest my time finding a solution to any of the above (as money is the only power people respect anymore, along with their personal comfort. Corporations will crush any solution that rears its head and the sheeple will cling to what is 'normal').
2.) Take the human race out of the equation, and suddenly Planet Earth has no more problems that she can't fix herself. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING gets along better without us.