1. Amount of increased terrorism: It has come to a point in time that people feel unsafe when they walk outside and feel unsafe to travel.
2. Lack of care for the environment: Many people go throughout their day and waste tons and tons of plastic and paper and don't even think about recycling or the harm that they are doing. The amount of harm we are doing to the environment could leave our great great grandchildren without an Earth to live on.
3. World hunger: It is such a horrible thing that children all over the world are starving and haven't had food in weeks or months when people in America and other 1st world countries order food then throw more than half of it out.
4. Lack of acceptance amongst every community and type of individual: I believe one of the biggest problems this world has is not accepting every individual for who they are. The fact that people still believe that individuals should not be legally allowed to be gay, transgender, lesbian, or bisexual is not something that should be still a problem within the 21st century.
5. Sexism. It is crazy that it is still an issue that women and men get paid different amounts of money for doing the same job. Studies have shown that even if women do a better job they still have a lower wage rate at certain jobs.
Top 5 Solutions - From most possible to implement to least possible to implement
1. Solution: Restaurants should not throw away the food that is left over or was a wrong order. These restaurants and companies that waste so much food should pack it up and bring it to soup kitchens and other places for individuals in need.
2. Solution: It should be illegal to discriminate wages amongst genders for equal job status because it should be an equivalent playing field.
3. Solution: I believe that it should be a law that products should be made from recyclable materials and there could be incentives to recycle such as tax breaks.
4. Solution: I think a practical solution could be to inform the public that these individuals are not harming anyone by their sexual orientation.
5. Solution:There is no practical solution to this issue besides trying to eliminate all the use of negative gun use and contain individuals with harmful intentions.
Why the top problem?
I chose the rise of terrorism to be the biggest world problem because of the amount of harm it is causing to individuals. Shootings, terrorist attacks, and more are causing so many deaths around the world to innocent human beings.
Why the top solution?
I chose the top solution to be world hunger because there is in fact more than enough food in the world but the main issue we have is what we do with all of it. If we actually figured out a way to reallocate all left over food from restaurants and other stores by the end of the day to countries and individuals in need around the world we could slowly decrease the amount of individuals going hungry.
Hello Alyssa,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. The problems are serious and of great importance. I also listed terrorism, the environment, and world hunger in my list. I agree with your solutions. I also agree with the fact that you chose world hunger as your top solution. Having the ability to donate the leftover food from restaurants would be amazing. I would also add that simply donating money to charities that support those in hunger would also be a way one can help stop world hunger.
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Wow! You touched on a lot of important issues. I also talked about inequality, environmental issues, terrorism, and poverty(world hunger). I really think these issues are very important, and I appreciate the fact that you seem to have really thought out some of your solutions. I came up with different solutions to some of the problems you mentioned, but I definitely see how yours may be more implementable. Its interesting how there could be so many different solutions to these horrible problems but nothing is done to fix them. Keep up the good work!
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