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Termination of a pregnancy before a fetus can survive outside the uterus

Abortion debate

Debate on circumstances permitting abortion of fetus

Presence of dangerous substances in the atmosphere

Well-being of non-human animals

The exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood

Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power

Conversion of forest to non-forest for human use

Denaturalization

Revoking a person's citizenship

Digital media use and mental health

Relationship between the use of digital media and the mental health of its consumers and users

Impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions

Act of leaving one's country or region with the intent to settle permanently or temporarily in another

Environmentalism

Broad philosophy, ideology and social movement concerning environmental wellbeing

Intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering

Extreme poverty

Condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs

Widespread scarcity of food followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality

Living in housing that is below standard or nonexistent

Human migration

Movement of people for their benefit

Human overpopulation

Condition where human numbers exceed the short or long-term carrying capacity of the environment

Humanitarianism

Relief activities to aid and assist humanity; philanthropic philosophy of active humanism

Movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native

Light pollution

Excess artificial light in the environment

Prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production

Process by which a non-national in a country acquires after birth the nationality of that country

Noise pollution

Excessive, displeasing human, animal, or machine-created environmental noise

One-child policy

Population-control policy in China

Philosophy opposing war or violence

State of harmony in the absence of hostility and violence.

Plastic pollution

Accumulation of plastic in natural ecosystems

Introduction of contaminants that cause adverse change

Population ageing

Increasing median age in a population

Population decline

Concept in human demographics

Lack or scarcity of financial assets or possessions

Poverty threshold

Minimum income deemed adequate to live in a specific country or place

Rejection of evolution by religious groups

Rejection of evolution by religious groups

Relative deprivation

The lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that an individual or group are accustomed to or that are widely encouraged or approved in the society to which they belong

Problem that influences a considerable number of individuals within a society

Social movement

Loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal

Student activism

Work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change

Sustainable development

Mode of human development

Use of physical force or psychological power with the intent to inflict harm

Water pollution

Contamination of water bodies

Ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations and people