Ask HN: What challenges facing soceity seem the most pressing to you?

I've been reading a lot of books and watching a lot of documentaries about history, anthropology, archaeology lately. I've even started to play Civilization VI. Going back to school for this field is even on the table right now, it is that interesting to me. Technology has been the engine that has driven civilization forward since the beginning with the application of fire to stay warm, ward off predators, cook meat. These factors drove brain development, the first cave paintings, eventually the extinction of many other competing apex species. Now it's just us and everything and everyone is at our mercy it seems. Yet we are still working out a lot of our collective problems within ourselves and each other. I read a Warren Buffet quote recently that really stood out to me for some reason. 'If we learn anything from history, it's that we don't learn from history.' Anyways, I'd love to hear what you see when you look at the history of the world and where we are headed next.