How can we build a social consensus to enable us to constructively and urgently combat runaway climate change?
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    I have a deep concern that our continued inability to seriously confront this climate change issue will result in massive and irreversible damage and ultimately destruction of our beautiful home,Planet Earth.

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    David Jewell
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    What is the one mechanism that will unify all of humanity for common good?
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    I am asking because we are becoming more convergent at the same time we are becoming more divergent. We have the power to build and destroy each other and ourselves. I want to know what we are doing today to ensure humanity exists for future generations at the same time the earth is changing/evolving.

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    Cynthia Mueller
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    Are words more important than actions?
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    @oliviaejallen
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    Why do so many Australians leave?
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    About one in twenty Australians live overseas at any given time – among the highest ratios of expatriates to residents of any country in the world. Why do so many of us leave? How do we relate to the people and places and culture we leave behind? And why do we come back? Since becoming an expat myself (one of the 200,000 Australians in London) I’ve often imagined that our wanderlust says something about our national psyche. But what?

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    @Simon_Collinson
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    would it advantage all of Australia by changing all the names of our capital cities to their Indigenous language names?
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    Indigenous Australia needs to be associated with the cultural fabrication of daily life. Our landscape is baron of Indigenous indicators.This would make Australians and the rest of the work knowingly participate in Aboriginal culture daily. x

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    Tony
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    Why must professional swimmers train so early in the morning? The races are not at this time. They have all day to swim.
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    I’ve always wondered. Every swimmer says they hate the early starts. So swim later. YOU HAVE ALL DAY TO SWIM! The races are often at night. Pools are indoors. It makes no sense!!

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    Michelle Clarke
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    Should the government spend more money on benefiting the poor or on promoting social development?
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    My country has been developing fast these years, but there remains a big gap between rich and poor. I think this gap is one of the reasons of social unrest, which is closely related to everyone.

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    Wanqing Xu
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    Why does anything exist, rather than nothing at all?
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    Although I was raised as a strict Irish-style Roman Catholic, after many years of deep thought, I am now an atheist, humanist, rationalist and sceptic, and have come to the conclusion that this is the most important unanswered philosophical question. I do not believe there is any need to postulate a creator, because belief in a creator god leads to the obvious next questions of who or what made god, and who or what made who or what made god, and so on indefinitely.

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    Rosemary Sceats
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    Where does Kim Kardashian get her underwear?
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    The most completely random question I could think of at this particular moment also i was trying to figure it out yesterday. Flabberghasting.

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    Alex Brooksbank
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    Why are there so many Self Help Books?
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    @1Phineasmaximus
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    Why do we keep asking the same questions to get the same answers? Shouldn’t we change the question?
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    I asked this question because nothing seems to actually change or progress. For example, why are we asking how to legalise same-sex marriage? Shouldn’t we be asking how do we redefine marriage? Or how can a legal framework be less discriminatory? I am asking because I care, and you should too. We can make a difference, we just have to stop doing things in the way they have always been done!

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    @thestoryroom
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    Would you take a drug that induced happiness with one side effect; the following day, you remember being happy but not what had happened?
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    Knowing ourselves seems to be the foundation for everything. It is important to question, and be critical of the thoughts, actions and beliefs that resonate with us. Such contemplation is crucial to continual self-development and sanity. Thus, madness can be partly seen as obliviousness, or in history it was highlighted as forgetting. If we forgot what had made us happy, are we mad?

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    Samantha Tran
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    Why is there something instead of nothing?
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    @nevertoocurious
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