This natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth forms the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society. - T.R. Malthus Global Challenges and Issues is the present. It’s what you see on the news everyday. It is the issues affecting those in your immediate family to people on the other side of the world. This section gives you tools to think about hunger, AIDS, the environment, and population issues on a global scale. How did these problems grow to such mammoth proportions? What are world leaders and policy makers doing about these issues? Step into the role of a World Health Organization official dealing with the politics of the global AIDS crisis in this section’s simulation. Note the many and varied factors involved in establishing environmental policy. After exploring the background of these issues and playing the role of a current policymaker, note "The Future" section of the InfoTrac reader to see specific proposals and forecasts for what lies ahead.