What is an issue/topic you believe isn’t getting enough attention or coverage?

Australia has a lot of privatised utilities and they should be publicly owned. All privitisation does is increase the cost for consumers, worsen the quality of service and enrich corporate owners. Public transport, electricity supply, water supply, gas supply, internet providing, education and much more. All of these things rely heavily on public funding, yet in Australia we seem content with allowing private companies to profit from degrading them.

Climate change, and how we're doing fuck all about it.

There are news stories about wildfires, droughts, water shortages, hurricanes, changing weather patterns, etc. But the climate change part is usually mentioned as an "oh by the way" and it's rarely tied to stuff we need to do.

Depending how far we push it, climate change is either "just" going to cause mass starvation and novel weather patterns; or it's going to make the Earth uninhabitable for humans.

Either way is fucking bad.

There's virtually no mainstream news coverage of what we need to do. People say to buy EVs, but that's not enough. We need to either radically limit the amount of energy we consume, or dramatically change how we generate energy. Probably both.

But there's no coverage. Just tRuMp HaTeS wInDmIlLs.

Housing crisis. In our country, it's being framed as an immigrant problem, but it is both a political choice and political inaction that is the culprit.

Also, big inflation...

Not to mention out-and-out corruption. The scumbags collecting money off of it just give it to their family and buddies while not a drop "trickles down" to the ones who need it. This is most glaring in California, but I'm not some MAGA retard. Corruption is spread through all of government.

The Epstein Files

Reporters need to keep asking until Trump has a mental break.
- Win/Win.

The supermassive island of plastic waste that no one's doing anything about other than dumping more plastic, which finds its way to that pile

that no one’s doing anything about
The Ocean Cleanup
- Don't forget fungus is hard at work evolving at a rapid pace to eat plastic! Nature's trying its heart out but it ain't fast.
I think calling it an island is doing it a disservice. It's not visible as any collective mass of anything. It's a diffuse mess of micro and macroscopic plastic spread across a truly massive area. Its essentially invisible from the surface.
You call it an island and the first thing people will want to see is images or video of this island. When they find out it doesn't exist as described it makes them think the issue is overblown.

Hard to say it's not getting enough attention - there are a lot of serious problems going on in the world today, that people are justified in making noise about.

But one of my pet issues is the switch to the metric system in the US. Why are we not working towards this? It was standardized decades ago. Should be uncontroversial to deprecate imperial, even though it obviously can't happen overnight.

Aviation is very heavy on the imperial system. It’s taught to future airplane mechs and pilots, and that’s a pretty large industry.
- Interesting, I never knew. Is that the case for aviation industry in other parts of the world too?
The worst is that a lot of professions will use metric even in the US. So you spend your childhood learning this fucking crazy imperial and go to become a doctor and have to relearn a lot of metric stuff
- Going to university for engineering showed me the light and has blessed me with an everlasting appreciation for the number 10.
  I have received complaints over sharing weather screenshots in Celsius and I just chuckle.
"uncontroversial"
I don't think you know us very well, do you?
(that's purely Bugs Bunny sarcasm there)
- Right! Emphasis, however sadly, on 'should be'.

I think a huge issue online is just how incredibly mean people can be to each other - and the fact that they don’t even see themselves as mean. They’ve built a story around how their behavior is justified, so they keep doing it, completely oblivious to the fact that they’re part of the problem.

If your going to be an asshole at least own being an asshole.

How covid didn't really disapear and airbornes diseases are still there.

I have a respiratory disease and I feel alone wearing my mask in public transist or struggling to remind people around me to vaccinate ( wich seems to fall on deaf ears ).

Things were different during the pandemic because there was a real risk of vastly overwhelming the healthcare system. Airborne diseases never went away, but the difference is that if you catch one now, you can get treated - which wasn’t always the case back then. That's why we urged people to wear masks and get vaccinated; that we all wouldn't get sick at the same time.
- Thing aren't that much different now, WHO and other org are still trying ( and sadly failling ) to get stuff done to prepare for the next pandemic ( Look at the US for example ). Not everyone can get treated, If someone vulnerable like an elderly person or someone like me catches the new covid variant there is little to no hope of recovery. Even if you perfecly recover covid can leave damaged lung and nerves. And even if treament can be done without consequences, medicine as always warned to prevent rather than treat.
  I don't ask for much, put a mask when going in crowded area and vaccinate at least once every six month.

Lemmy mod log is authoritarian shit that does not say who took actions. It is cowardly garbage that should absolutely be the lynch pin for this place unless transparency is restored immediately.

There are thousands of diseases that need more research. For every ice bucket challenge, there are a hundred more diseases with similar prognoses that go under-researched.

I think this is a result of severely misplaced priorities in society. How many marketers do we really need? Couldn't they be doing something far more useful?

Counterpoint: medical researchers don’t make line go up
- Medical research is like youth sports.
  Sure, 99.9% of these kids aren't going to go pro, but most of them will learn something useful.
- Imagine if making society better made the line go up instead of being a dickhead.

That we are no longer in a democracy and have left it in the past.

Enjoy everybody.

Very USA-Centric of you, there are still functional democracies around the world.
- Lol take it as you will.