Top 5 World Problems

Top Five Problems:

1.     Equality- When I say equality, I use it the most general terms possible. Gender equality, racial equality, age and everything above, all people deserve equal representation and equal human rights. Many times this is not seen when it comes to couples wanting to get married, or women having the same chances as men in the work place, and people of different backgrounds having a fair playing ground as anyone else.

2.     Poverty- there is still an immense problem with poverty in our world. There are families in South America, the Caribbean, Africa, China and even here in the United States that do not have enough funds or resources to take care of their families. Besides not being able to feed families, there are also poor housing situations that leave people living in terrible conditions.

3.     Education- This is a major problem in my opinion for our world. Education is where the distribution of knowledge begins, where inspiration and enlightenment brighten the minds of children and adults alike. With-out education, there would be no formal structure in our governments or school systems for that matter as we have today.

4.     Health Care- The health care situation has a lot to do with the poverty situation which I explained about earlier. Across the globe, proper medical care for individuals is at many times nonexistent or at least very miniscule compared to that which exist in wealthier countries. For example, medical attention for pregnant women is hardly a thing in third world poverty stricken nations, and care for the elderly and sick is also not a funded group as it is here in the states.

5.     Trash – there is a large accumulation of trash building up in the world’s oceans and landfills. It appears as though people are not reusing and recycling materials as much as society should be. The amount of trash that people produce is plaguing the well-being of earth’s animals and the health of its people, along with the possibility of running out of resources.

My Justification:

So I believe this list ranking appropriately places what I believe are our world’s biggest problems into a logical frame of thinking. I took into account the broader more social issues at hand and ranked them up top, and then placed the more system based issues towards the bottom of the list. I thought the number one issue is equality because everything following after it falls under that category of necessary equality in order to be addressed. It acts like an umbrella problem so to speak, entailing a multitude of other issues underneath its one general issue.   

Top Five Solutions:

A solution for this I believe begins in the household, teaching children how to respect and take care of the earth. More sustainable programs for collecting trash should be implemented, and society should actually put more effort into such programs by following them and improving them.   

Solutions for this major issue already are in place in many places such as the United States, many parts of Europe and Latin American countries; however, there is a huge amount left of the world which has no access to proper medical care. A way to solve this would be for the leadership in those nations to implement a health program for their citizens, providing doctors, medicine, and necessary treatment to patients.    

A possible solution to this problem may be to have proper allocation of resources to other countries in need. It is clear that wealthier countries are able to grab hold of more supplies and better sources of nutrients due to the larger amounts of income that the nation has, many times taking more than necessary and not leaving enough to go around. Therefore, there should be equal opportunity for the distribution of wealth, food, and energy for all nations.

The provision and further development of education to those around the world truly depends on the leaders who make up these policies. They should form international standards which would need to be meet by all nations. These standards would include things like proper schooling facilities, supplies, teachers, and a means for children and young adults to attend higher levels of education free of charge or at least a very low cost of attendance.

Truly this calls for more of a social solution than anything else. A means of teaching the public about equal representation for all individuals must first begin with the way we raise our children. This is something that would have to begin from the parents and leaders of this world, passing down the knowledge and means of how to respect one another to today’s youth so that that generation could then further improve themselves and those to come after them.

My Justification:

I placed the solutions almost in the exact opposite order from my biggest problems list. This ended up occurring do to the fact that the biggest problems have the most difficult solutions to try and put into place. Therefore, the most implementable solution I could think of was the one with teaching others about the proper means of throwing away trash. Already there are such education programs out there, as well as recycling, compost, and waste programs that are in use in some places. Hence because there is already a large foundation on the topic, the solution is very much possible.