Top 5 World Problems

Worlds Biggest Problems (Ranked!)

"5. The growing disparity between lower and upper classes in the US is quickly becoming more of an issue. As ultra-rich interest groups use political connections and lobbying to keep tax rates low under the guise of helping job creation, the gap continues to grow. Better, scaling tax policies and health care for poorer classes would help fix this.

4. Racism in the police force is leading to the death of hundreds if not thousands of innocents in the US alone. Stricter monitoring of the police force and, although this is a bit morbid, older generations dying off will hopefully lessen this as time goes on.

3. The spread of infectious diseases like Ebola that are slow to get vaccines due to initially limited visibility and 'profitability'. If Ebola was a disease that had been present in the first world for some time, it would almost certainly have had a vaccine for years. But since until recently, it was a low-profile killer in unseen parts of the world, no one cared enough to put the money into a vaccine or treatment. Greater, apolitical support of charities and groups like Doctors Without Borders and MSF will be required to stop this sort of event in the future.

2.  Hunger and starvation in poor parts of the world, and even richer parts of the world like the US in the Appalachians. As agricultural tech increases, and we are able to exploit GMOs for larger crop yields and tougher plants, I believe we will be able to increase global crop yields and bring these crops to more remote, poorer locations.

1. Climate change is another problem our generation is facing. Its an interesting problem because it both happens slow enough for people to ignore and there are segments of politicians that spread misinformation to further their own ends. Increased reliance on green, renewable energy resources is the best bet to lessening this change."

Ranked Solutions

5. Stricter monitoring and old generations dying for police brutality
4. Apolitical support of charities to stop infectious disease
3. Scaling tax policies and health care for class disparity
2. Increased reliance on renewable resources for climate change
1. Exploiting GMOs and tech to increase crop yields to fight hunger

I chose climate change as my top problem because its the most potentially damaging and long lasting of the problems I listed. Things like racism or class disparity are most definitely problems, but are solely societal and cultural problems, so ended up lower on the list. Climate change negatively affects the globe, and thus future generations long after we are gone. 

I believe that my proposed solution to curb world hunger was my best and most realistic one, as GMOs are already seeing increasingly popular use in agricultural, and technology is always advancing forward. If the US perfectly conserved all of its unused and wasted food, millions of people could live off the waste alone. My other solutions were not as strong or were at least fairly obvious, like donating more to charities or wait for racist people to die, but don't really fix the underlying causes of each issue.