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In a world of vast and growing economic inequalities , potentially catastrophic environmental crises , seemingly irresolvable ethnic conflicts , public health disasters ( such as the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa ) , and growing hopelessness about possibilities for global justice , the Oregon standards feel irrelevant , distant from any attempt to resolve the burning issues of our time - hollow .