What is the biggest issue facing our world today?

9/7/2022

Zoe Grace Fuller

9/8/2022 10:52:09 am

The biggest issue we deal with today is the environmental crisis. Although everyone faces different challenges regionally, we all inhabit the same earth. Globally, if we continue to neglect the absurd amount of pollution, imminent problems such as excessive flooding from rising water levels, lower levels of dissolved oxygen in water, and increasingly dangerous temperatures will affect us all sooner or later. For example, in Pakistan, a death toll of 1325 civilians was due to flash floods and further damage economically due to the abnormal amount of water, thus disrupting agricultural methods and creating landslides. Furthermore, the majority of the population in Asia consumes seafood such as fish, and with lower levels of dissolved oxygen, the population of fish will decrease. Finally, increasing temperatures ravage the world with heat waves killing 2,556 people in 2020 in the UK alone. T

Stacy Chidi

9/9/2022 09:40:01 pm

The biggest issue facing our world today is climate change. Human activities such as manufacturing and generating electricity release greenhouse gases that trap the sun's heat. According to climate.gov,... but the rate of warming since 1981 is more than twice that: 0.32° F per decade. The earth is getting warmer overtime and this is causing a change in the land. According to climate.nasa.gov, as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm due to climate change, droughts are becoming more frequent, severe, and pervasive. Droughts threaten the water supply and reduce the amount of fertile land.

Elliot Engquist link

9/12/2022 07:21:13 am

One of the biggest issues in the world today is global conflicts. According to the Council on Foreign Relations’s Global Conflict Tracker there are 27 current conflicts in the world. Global conflicts lead to major losses of human life and economical issues. Not only do military personnel die but civilians as well. According to nytimes.com in the Ukrainian conflict 5587 civilians are confirmed to have died. Overall these conflicts have a large and negative impact on the world even in places where the conflict isn't happening.

Kendrick Dilworth

9/12/2022 04:58:23 pm

In my opinion, the world's biggest issue is having affordable healthcare. According to the World Health Organization, at least half of the world's population cannot receive the healthcare they truly need. Due to the high costs of healthcare in some nations, people are severely strained economically to pay for care so they or a relative does not die. Overall, i think that there should be more cost-effective healthcare to grant more access to those in need.

Daisy Moreno

9/23/2022 05:49:28 pm

One of the biggest issues that we are currently facing is poverty. According to Our World in Data, 85% of the world lives on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and every tenth person lives on less than $1.90 per day. These people face a numerous number of challenges, like homelessness, insufficient supply of food, inadequate childcare, and lack of education. Not only are these families with low incomes facing long-term health issues, but they are risking their lives in the process.

Allison Wei

9/23/2022 06:44:01 pm

One of the biggest issues in the world is bigotry. Many of the problems people face have an underlying connection to discrimination, like xenophobia, racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, anti-religions, and more. Genocides and country-wide oppression both have roots in injustice, considering that many massacres are caused by unfair biases. Examples of this are the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and any conflicts between Europeans and indigenous populations. Most conflicts create intolerance of other groups of people, mostly minorities which are easy to target and also easy to persecute without much resistance.

-Allison Wei

Srivatsav Koduri

9/23/2022 07:53:10 pm

One of the biggest issue facing our world today is waste disposal. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 292.4 million tons of waste was produced in the United States of America in 2018. One problem with creating this much waste is the amount of materials being lost annually. New materials often mean harming the environment to obtain them, causing further damage. Another issue is the storage of this waste itself. Lots of the waste is going to landfills which takes away space from what could be forests, parks, and other beneficial locations. The waste itself isn't usually biodegradable which means it can take hundreds of years for it to decompose naturally.

Anjali Pillai

9/23/2022 08:19:22 pm

Although there are many issues in our world today, one of the biggest issues facing our world today is discrimination. People can be discriminated against for many things including race, gender, religion, sexuality and many more. This is a problem because there can be physical violence involved. For example, there were 11472 victims of hate crimes in 2020(https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-releases-updated-2020-hate-crime-statistics). Discrimination is a problem that is on the rise in the world today.

Anjali Pillai

9/23/2022 08:20:13 pm

Diya Gaur

9/28/2022 07:33:44 pm

The biggest issue facing our world is global warming that is contributing to climate change. Climate change not only poses a threat to the entire human species, but also poses the threat of extinction to all living human organisms on planet Earth.

Increased use of emissions and fossil fuels has has led to an increase in natural disasters that is causing ecosystems and habitats harm. This is not only limited to the animal population, but also the human population.

For example, the Puerto Rico crisis due to Hurricane Fiona has dramatically affected its population. Global warming can be Hurricane Fiona. As Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, it had left many people without basic life needs such as electricity, shelter, and water, leaving many people sick or deceased.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63011195

Diya Gaur, A1 AP World History

Mia Reynoso

9/28/2022 08:13:11 pm

The biggest issue facing our world today is water scarcity. Although most people believe water a source that will never run out, freshwater is extremely rare in many place around the world. According to the WWF, only 3% of the worlds water is freshwater, while the rest of the water is unavailable to use or recover (https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/water-scarcity). As a consequence, approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water while 2.7 billion find water very hard to get. Sanitation is also the cause of water scarcity because even more places such as LDCs cannot afford clean water nor the process in making clean water so they must suffer diseases that come from drinking the dirty water causing even more health problems. Keeping in mind most of world world is still covered in LDCs, which can cause many issues everywhere. Water scarcity will become one of the world's greatest issues worldwide in a couple years as many body of waters are starting to become polluted causing issues to even MDCs in acquiring water.

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