Inaction on problems

There often appears to be a serious and widening gap between policies and actual programmes, between the written word and the practice on the ground, between rhetoric and reality. Most 'strategies' are not vigorously followed up by plans of action with timetables, resource allocation and monitoring procedures. Whilst it can be the case that technical recommendations exist in abundance, and declarations of intent and commitment are produced, yet the ability or the will to go further is often absent.

1. The chances of anybody doing anything are inversely proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead.

1. Lack of care
2. Inactivity
3. General obstacles to problem alleviation

1. Unfulfilled treaty obligations
2. Issue avoidance
3. Inadequate international nongovernmental organization response to intergovernmental calls for action
4. Inadequate implementation of plans and programmes against problems
5. Government inaction
6. Bureaucratic inaction

1. Unsolved crimes
2. Psychological stress of environmental decline
3. Oppressive reality
4. Failure of remedial action plans
5. Credibility gap

1. Wicked problems
2. Triskaidekaphobia
3. Rewarding inaction
4. Resignation to problems
5. Procrastination
6. Preoccupation with isolated problems
7. Philosophical inertia
8. Passivity
9. Non-recognition of problems
10. Lack of political will
11. Insufficient financial resources
12. Institutional preoccupation with obsolete problems
13. Insensitivity to non-immediate hazards to society
14. Inconsistent risk evaluation
15. Gradualism
16. Failure to conceptualize large-scale problems
17. Consensus trap
18. Conceptual repression of problems

1. Revolution

1. Disharmonies of the Gall Bladder in the body

1. Addressing inaction on problems
2. Activism
3. Acting on problems

1. Problem
2. Inactivity
3. Inability
4. Failure
5. Disability
6. Action
7. Ability