1. Climate Change. Climate change is, in my opinion, the most underrated and overlooked global problem today. Of course there are many people struggling from huge issues today, however, this is an issue that will leave an impact forever if we do not take immediate action against it.
A practical solution would include getting the government increasingly involved and having them implement stricter regulations.
2. Education. 775 million people today are still illiterate. The issue of poverty coincides directly with the issue of education. If people are uneducated, they are unable to learn skills or acquire jobs to earn income.
Even in America, the education system is lacking, and I believe that if all counties focused more governmental funding on public education and outsourcing educators to incapable countries this issue could improve.
3. Harmful Hacking. 97% of companies are aware that they have been hacked. It is nearly impossible to entirely prevent data from being tapped into and if governments aren't careful enough, they can be penetrated by potentially harmful people.
In my opinion, cyber security is an issue that will never completely be able to be resolved, however, putting more effort into fraud detection can help prevent this as much as possible.
5. Overfishing. Humans are overfishing in the ocean and many different species of fish and sea creatures are becoming extinct. Since most people don't actually see this going on they don't really understand that it is actually an issue.
Stricter regulations should be enforced.
5. Animal Agriculture. There is not enough land space and water to sustain the amount of humans on earth and the amount of meat they demand. People typically think that they require meat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but it is completely untrue and unfeasible.
People should consider limiting their daily intake of meat consumption.
6. Student Debt. Student debt is an issue that I do not believe most people take seriously. Countries are already in so much debt and lending out more money to students who will not be able to entirely pay it back is setting everyone back substantially. Currently, there are only 5 countries in the entire world who live debt free.
Lenders need to increase the interest rate on student loans and have stricter background checks to see if the person they are lending money too will actually be able to pay them back.
7. Refugees. The Syrian refugees are currently dispersing among any countries that will accept them. This is creating a huge issue not only for Syrians but also for the countries accepting them because they have to decide on and implement new regulations.
Stricter regulations should be intact for incoming refugees in order to prevent more harm than good.
8. ISIS. I do not believe that any group of people causing harm to others should be tolerated. I feel personally threatened by ISIS as should any person. We should not tolerate terrorists and should be actively fighting this group of individuals. I like to believe that humans are innately good and I do not understand why someone would intentionally follow orders from someone demanding them to cause harm upon innocent people they know nothing about.
Countries that are opposed to ISIS need to stand together and actively fight against this group.
9. Gun Violence. Although I do not personally believe that personal gun licenses should be banned, I do believe that this is an issue for many people. I understand that there is a lot of fear involved in peoples' possession of guns, however, I believe bad people will still do bad things even without guns and there is truly no way to prevent it.
Education would be the key to preventing gun-related crimes.
10. Water. Water is diminishing at a shocking rate. Only .3% of the water on the Earth is accessible and usable. I know that I personally don't think about this statistic, especially when taking showers.
If people were better educated on the lack of accessible water I believe that they would be more willing to conserve the amount of water they use.
I'm glad to see you have something related to cyber security on your list. I'm a Computer Engineer major, so it is something that I have an interest in. I do know a lot of people don't think about what happens to the information they give out after its done. A lot of companies and governments tend to do only the bare minimum to protect the information collected, and often times that information isn't even encrypted. I think if more people cared there could be a rapid change to keeping stored information more secure, but it seems until then, organizations will only slowly move to proper security. I talked about government surveillance in my blog post, and if the information they collect (whether or not they should) isn't secured this is a big problem.
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I really connected with your listing especially regarding the depletion of natural resources. I don't think we think about the waste we dispense not only in this country but others as well. There are millions that have nothing to eat or are lucky to get one meal a day, but we find ourselves not killing for meat, but for sport. As you mention, the over fishing of our waters is a huge problem. We need to step back as a human race and come together and think about the future and how our planet and continue to sustain if we continue to waste. Great post.
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