1) Lack of Clean Drinking Water
2) Malnutrition
3) Obesity
4) Terrorism
5) Sex Trafficking
The reason I believe that lack of clean drinking water is the most serious is that we all need water to live and so many people are dying yearly because of lack of clean drinking water. Malnutrition is similar, but much less people die every year from it. Obesity is specifically a major world issue in urban, fast-paced countries such as the United States, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia. Terrorism in the form of terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda are a major problem because they can strike at any time, any way. Sex trafficking is a huge issue in Florida surprisingly, but is an even bigger issue globally as young women and men are trafficked in order to meet certain demands by different industries, such as the pornography industry. Although these are all very important, dying of clean water (something we could fix) is much more of a problem than the much smaller number of people who get sex trafficked.
Top 5 world problem solutions from most feasible to least feasible:
1) Banning the pornography industry, in order to stop sex trafficking
2) Using Filters of Hope, partnering with major organizations to help provide clean, drinking water
3) Better Nutrition Testing for foods in order to ban those that lead to obesity
4) Training government employees and military units better ways to interact with people groups of a different culture.
5) Using food portion controls and learning to help share resources to those countries in need of food
The reason that banning the pornography industry is the most feasible is that there is a lot of scientific support for the claim of pornography being bad for people, plus the large amounts of people being sex trafficked would stop so quickly. The next most feasible solution would be for governments to partner with filters of hope toward giving these filters to individuals in need across the World. Proper nutrition testing is harder because it takes away certain foods that can be fine if ate in moderation. Training government officials is very easy to do, except there is thousands of different cultures. Every person eats certain portions because of their size (skinny women to bigger man) and thus portioning control is difficult to define.
Hi Walter, I really enjoyed reading your post! We actually discussed a few of the same issues; I also listed sex trafficking and terrorism as being among the most prominent and serious problems in today's world. I was impressed by the thought you put into your explanations of why you ranked your problems and solutions the way you did. I especially enjoyed learning about Filters of Hope through your blog post; I am passionate about making this world a better place, and I always like hearing about organizations that strive to do the same.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to check out how I ranked the top 5 biggest problems in the world, you can find my blog post by following this link: http://entrepreneurshipbyisa.blogspot.com/2016/01/top-5-world-problems-week-4.html