1.) Science proves that the world is warming slowly. Look at power plants and you can physically see all of the emissions being let out, primarily CO2.
I think a practical and logical approach to solving this problems would be to look at the country Germany. Germany ( Primarily Conservative leaders ) is investing in their citizens and businesses by giving incentives to going green. Giving companies tax breaks and individuals refunds for buying products that produce electricity. Literally, in Germany citizens have window screens that create electricity, thus providing a house enough power to curve their electric bill. Notice how I did not say eliminate. The electric companies are still providing power to citizens just not as much, and emissions are down. Something like this should be done in all developed countries. This would also give jobs to the companies who manufacture these products.
2.) War has become an industry to generate money.
The U.S.A has been involved in many wars, but in the past 20 years the situations have changed. The U.S.A is going to war with small countries for prolonged periods of time with no intention of winning. World War II was a 6 year war, but we have been involved in much smaller conflicts for over a decade? The politicians are getting paid by defense companies to send our troops over seas to be involved in wars using the products of the companies that provide money to the politicians. It is a vicious circle that can be broken by voting for the right people. If individuals voted for politicians who did not take huge corporate sponsorships most of these issues would simply disappear. A win win scenario!
3.) Obesity in developed countries is a huge concern.
The U.S.A is leading the developed world with an obese society, but other developed countries are not far behind. This leads to increased health care costs, more expensive products for everyone, and hurts a nations workforce. The biggest contribution to this issue is the over consumption of sugar. THe proof is out there and the state of California has the right approach. By properly labeling foods that contain mass amounts of added sugar this trend can be stopped. Sugar is literally proven to reduce life span, decay teeth, cause diabetes, and a multitude of other life threatening diseases. Another way to stop this issue would be for the Federal Government to stop subsidies to the sugar industry.
4.) China is polluting at a level never seen before killing their own people.
In China the government does not take proper precautions protecting their people from the harm of pollution. People throw trash in the street and the corporations pollute the water. The government needs to install fines and penalties on companies and people to clean up their country. The government needs to sacrifice their relaxing environmental rules to ensure there is an environment tomorrow.
5.) Terrorism throughout the world is growing.
Media and politicians are talking about terrorism everyday. From the Paris shootings a few months ago to the San Bernardino massacre a few weeks ago. We can definitely see the trend growing and there is a solution. The best way to make something go away is to support the exact opposite. Mother Teresa would never go to an anti war rally, but she would always go to a pro piece rally. Gandhi won a war without fighting. The solution to the problem of terrorism is to start spreading piece and love, not more violence and death.
6.) Most places in Africa, Asia, and South America do not have access to clean drinking water.
This problem is causing people to die at young ages, and increases the cost of living on others. If people do not have access to this basic necessity of life how will they contribute anything meaningful to the world. A way to fix this would be for global leaders like the E-20 to step in an assign countries to each other to help. If you help your neighbors out one day they will help you.
7.) Lots of countries, even well developed countries do not know how to feed their own people.
Countries like Haiti, Venezuela, and many other smaller countries do not have the knowledge or capacity to grow enough food to feed their own people. Innocent people are dying because farmers in other countries do not have the knowledge or capacity to provide enough food for everyone. A solution to this problem would be for countries like the USA who have already solved this to start selling their overstock to these countries for pennies on the dollar. This would bring money to small farmers in the USA and provide food for people who do not have it in the under developed countries!
8. ) Corporations are cutting corners in food safety and it is hurting people. Lots of food companies not just Chipotle do not know enough about their own food safety protocol and outbreaks are occurring throughout the world. Companies need to be checked and verified by regulation agencies on a regular unknown basis to ensure proper precautions are met. I have worked at many placed that would only clean there restaurant when they knew an inspection was coming.
9.) The homeless population is on the rise in developed countries like the USA.
Well this is an issue because being homeless decreases your life expectancy and causes many sociological and economical issues within a country. A way to fix this would be for states and communities to coordinate together and develop a way to get these people jobs in low skill sectors. If these homeless people had jobs cleaning bathrooms on the interstate, picking up trash on the beach, or cutting grass on government properties the whole population would benefit!
10.) Developed countries like the USA are producing to much waste to be considered sustainable. We produce so much trash that landfills are being filled and new developments are being built on natural land reserves to accommodate our waste problems.
The USA needs to look at other countries like the UK who simply cannot produce waste because they have no where to keep it. By reusing recycling we can cut our dependency on landfills and keep our land clean for the next generation!
Steve Clegg
Hi Stephen,
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading your list of the world's ten biggest problems because they were a little different from everyone else's. I like how you took really broad problems and showed specific examples of where the problem is happening and a good way to fix it. I thought it was interesting that you included pollution as one of the world's biggest problems- I didn't think about including that. I have attached a link to my post about the world's biggest problems if you want to read them:
http://laurasici.blogspot.com/2016/01/worlds-biggest-problems.html
Salut Stephen!
ReplyDelete“Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.” - By Anonymous. Obesity is really a problem and so many people are not taking it too seriously. I don't think properly labeling foods is going to help the trend of obesity tremendously as those who are hungry usually don't look at the label on what's inside because what looks and taste good to them is good enough for them. I was the same way until recently where I'm beginning to look at cost efficiency and nutritious side to my buying ventures to decrease cost and increase nutrition intake with my personal eating habits.
We have many others that are similar such as climate change, War, Famine, water shortages, etc. But I just wanted to talk about obesity since that's one people can oversee. If you would like to see my blog post, here's my link: http://thisisnotawkward.blogspot.com/2016/01/only-few-of-worlds-biggest-problems.html