Sentences with phrase «about societal ills»

When you think of injustice, your mind might automatically go to thinking about societal ills like crime and poverty.

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Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton writes in American Scholar about the responsibility of science for some of our societal ills.

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

And what about the mounting health care costs that undermine our competitiveness in global markets and rob us of resources we could use to advance medical knowledge and attend to a slew of societal ills.