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Suggested Topics
- Climate change and its effects (issues: drought; torrential rains; warming of northern areas)
- Conflict area (issues, causes)
- COVID and ongoing economic implications (supply issues)
- Development (issues: literacy rates; poverty rates; GDP)
- Disease (issues of communicable diseases and their spread/ non-communicable diseases and their spread)
- Energy Supply (issues)
- Environmental issues
- Ethnic groups (issues of preservation of cultural heritage; of language; of territory; of self-governing)
- Female empowerment (gender or equality issues)
- Food production (GMO foods and issues; organically grown food and issues; non-organically grown food and issues)
- Fresh water (over-abundance, scarcity)
- Human trafficking (issues)
- Industries and economic implications (issues: outsourcing; child work)
- Migration; migration flows
- Natural resources and economic implications (problem: over-reliance on extractive industries)
- Northern Sea Route (along the Arctic) and issues
- Population density (issues: food scarcity; clean water scarcity)
- Terrorism
- Tourism (impact on landscape and people)
- Trafficking of illegal substances (also: human tissues)
- Transportation modes (water, rail, roads) and resultant issues
- Urban areas (issues: over-crowdedness; slums; location in low-lying coastal areas)
- Urbanization (growth of megacities and their issues)
