The world's top problems from most serious to least serious:
2) Climate change
3) Apathy towards environmental issues
4) The growing world population
5) Being disconnected
Top solutions from most possible to implement to least possible to implement
1) Getting government officials to take action in implementing policies to remedy some of the major factors contributing to climate change.
2) Creating a government service that teaches people about the environment and provides incentives for being environmentally-conscious.
3) Governments providing birth control education to combat the rapid population increase.
4) Creating a government organization that teaches people about different religions, races, and cultures to allow people to become more open-minded.
5) Having official social media-free holidays to combat the increasing disconnectedness of millennials today.
For my list of the world's top problems, I ranked them the way I did because I believe our world's most serious problems are people who define an entire group of people based on the actions of a few and climate change. All over the world, people tend to judge an entire group of people based on the actions of a few extremists. Entire religions, races, and even cultures are discriminated against or even persecuted because of this. I think this is one of the world's most serious problems because if people don't stop filling their hearts with hate, this world isn't going to be a very delightful place. However, I placed my solution to this problem as number 4 on the second list because it is very hard to change people's perceptions of the world and the people in it. I also placed climate change as one of the world's most serious problems because our natural world is in danger of being destroyed. However, I placed my solution to this problem as number 1 on the second list because I think it would be very easy to influence lawmakers to create policies on climate change. If everyone makes a small effort, we can make a big difference.
Hi Morgan,
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do think stereotyping, discrimination, and racism are huge problems in this world, I do not think it should necessarily be placed number one on the list of world's biggest problems. Climate change is indeed the biggest problem. And just like you said, its solution is easy to implement compared to the other solutions to the world's biggest problems.
check out my post here:
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I think it's interesting that you listed disconnectedness as one of your top five issues. I feel that things like social media and the internet has made people more connected as it becomes easier to share your life and find people you would have never met otherwise. The only issue that we both have is climate change, which you can see on my blog here: http://ryanent3003.blogspot.com/2016/01/top-5-world-problems.html
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