I think the #1 challenge is low awareness. All of the previous problems listed can be improved/remedied by raising awareness and learning to live more consciously. Living unconsciously exacerbates all of these problems.
When people learn how they unconsciously contribute to such problems, they're more likely to decide to stop being part of the problem. But as long as people remain unaware and live unconsciously, they'll keep contributing to these problems.
A simple example: If we can convince enough people to be more selective about what companies they're willing to work for (or whether they'd want to be employees in the first place), then fewer people will consciously choose to work as slaves for destructive, greed-based enterprises. This can create more demand for conscious companies that make a positive net difference in the world.
Of course the first place we need to work on raising awareness is within ourselves.
This is why I opted to to make my primary aim to teach people to live more consciously. In my opinion this will have a greater positive effect than tackling any of the specific problems directly (as far as my particular skills and abilities go). Once we achieve a critical mass of highly conscious people, good solutions to the low-level problems emerge.
As long as mass consciousness remains to low, tackling the specific problems directly won't have much effect. Proposed solutions will only fall on deaf ears. Why? Because all of the solutions require enough people to care, and unconscious people simply don't care.
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