Top 5 World Problems

World's Biggest Problems: Ranked from most serious to least serious.

1) World Hunger - It is no secret that children go to bed hungry around the world. with a great deal of the world in poverty, there are families that are lucky to eat once a day. Access to food and clean drinking water are issues for families in some countries as well.

2) Climate Change (formerly known as global warming) - Climate change is a phrase that some of us know too well, and some politicians don't know it well enough. The gasses and fossil fuels that factories and homes exert into the atmosphere cause tears in the ozone layer. This ozone layer is unable then incapable of fully maintaining a normal temperature. As the temperatures in the world gradually rise, the melting ice from both poles raise the sea level. The unstable weather also causes dramatic changes int he weather (from heat wave to a blizzard).

3) Overpopulation - It is more than quite obvious that our world is overpopulated. Humans over-exhaust the resources that the earth still has left. Families that have over one dozen children are major contributors to the inevitable death of our planet.

4) Health Care - Not every country suffers from lack of health care, but the fact that there are countries without proper health care means that it is a problem. The lack of attention to diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, and mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, leads to improper treatment. The people who are suffering from these illnesses end up becoming more ill or even die.

5) Education - Every child should have the opportunity to go to school. The problem with education ranges from a poorly formed system to the lack of schools. Schools should be available all around the world and not just in the richest of countries.


The Solutions: Ranked in order from most-possible to implement to least-possible to implement.

1)  Education - A solution to the education problem would have to start with creating schools where they are needed. Also, each school system around the country should follow after one country's good example, Finland. They receive proper education and are more advanced than other countries.

2) Health Care -A solution for health care relies within government once again. If every country had a health care system set up like Canada's, then everyone would have equal access to the doctor's office and the hospital.

3) World Hunger - A solution for world hunger would entail a hint of socialism. The government sets taxes to pay for certain programs and have a budget for each year. If each country had a government that taxed the citizens a minuscule percentage extra to put aside to providing food to the malnourished; it would be similar to a soup kitchen, but more accessible.

4) Overpopulation - A solution to overpopulation is very tricky. One part of me says to have the government regulate the amount of children born to a family via birth control, but that sounds like an excerpt from a dystopian novel. A less invasive approach would to add an extra tax to those that have more than five children. This system is not controlling and would encourage families to stay small. Why is five the limit and not two? I would be a hypocrite; ideally, I want five children, but no more than that.

5) Climate Change - A solution to the world's problem starts with a small step of change. Humans could stop burning as many fossil fuels as they do now; this could aid in slowing down the problem. Other than that, scientists could find another planet to take refuge on. The climate change problem that we as humans created is irreversible; the best we could do is buy more time.


Reflection:

I chose world hunger as the most serious problem because it is relevant everywhere around the world. People are dying from starvation and children are going to bed hungry on a daily basis. Basic human needs include water, shelter, and food; if someone does not have access to one of these, I consider it a major problem. I considered education to be the least serious of the five because unlike the others, education is technically not necessary for survival.

I chose education as the most-implementable solution because I know that it can happen. Several countries, including Finland, have a well-functioning education system in place. It's not a difficult task to improve education; Finland is leading in education and it's because of they teach their students. Other countries should make adjustments where it is necessary. I chose climate change as the least-implementable solution because it involves finding another planet, in which we are probably centuries away from implementing. A dystopian setting for the overpopulation solution came in a close second to the climate one.