We've got Issues
Health & Wellbeing: By the age of 45, largeley preventable diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes cause the vast majority of deaths in both rich and poor nations...
Income Inequality: The greater the gap between rich and poor in a country, the higher its rates of mental illness, infant mortality, adult obesity, teen pregnancy, homicide and imprisonment...
Privacy: Website history can be traced to your computer's IP address, so data "may be shared" with governments, litigants or divorcing spouses...
Fraud: Tax fraud costs the UK government at least £15 billion a year, around 15 times as much as benefit fraud...
Terrorism: Traffic accidents kill around 2,500 people in the UK every year. Since the "war on terror" began the largest number of victims in a UK mainland terrorist attach in 52...
The Ageing Population: An eighty year old roday can expect to live to 91, but health spans do not necessarily keep up with life spans...
Climate Change: The effects of climate change can already be observes in the UK and around the world. Extreme weather is predicted to become more common with catastrophic effects on human, animal and plant life within our children's lifetimes...
Mental Health: Today one in six workers is suffering from depression. Look around your office, if you have half a dozen co-workers it's probably one of them, if it isn't you...
Stuff & Consumerism: Rioters in Britain took to the streets not to protest some policy or support a movement but to gain new sports shoes and flat screen TVs. They were the riots of "disqualified consumers"...
Political Apathy: More votes were cast for Taylor Hicks, a contestant in the 2006 American Idol contest, than for any president in any election in US history...
Surveillance Society: Britain has more surveillance cameras monitoring streets, parks and government buildings than any other country...
Economic Crisis: The UK spent £38 billion on bailing out the banks, enough to pay for four London Olympics, 70 new hospitals or 1,520 new schools...
Self Image: A survey found that almost a third of women would trade at least a year of their lives to be their ideal body weight and shape...
In 2050 1/3 of the population will be over 65
As the price of fashion drops the human cost goes up
Simplicity has never been more complicated
The gap between the rich and poor has never been greater
50% of the UK's carbon emissions are made by 1% of the population
Our clothes will soon be as smart as our phones
Designers are going through an identity crisis
Business as usual isn't working
Obesity is becoming a bigger problem
By 2050 over 115,000,000 people will be living with dementia
Mass production means we're losing touch with craft
Labour saving devices do not save time
