"Top 5 World Problems"

Biggest Problems Ranked:

1.     World Hunger/ Poverty

2.     Global Terrorism

3.     Climate Change

4.     Racism

5.     Global Economic Crises

“Easiest” or “Most implementable” Solutions:

1.     The United States should probably focus on helping provide the infrastructure to grow food rather than only delivering food. I’m not quite sure what we currently do.

2.     It would take global cooperation to reduce emissions and reduce the effect of climate change.  I also think that there needs to be more research into climate change; we need to learn more about it, its causes (both natural and human), and how to stop it.

3.     There is obviously not an easy solution to this problem.  ISIS appears to be driven to violence based on extreme religious views that stem from the Sunni belief.  They won’t be easily persuaded to stop, and peace in the Middle East has long been hard to achieve.  The elimination of ISIS would hardly fix the problems in the Middle East and would just create a power vacuum.  Global cooperation is required to stop the rise of ISIS and Global Terrorism.

4.     As for how to fix it, I have no idea.  But this is definitely a huge problem and needs to be fixed.

5.     I’m not an economist and have only taken a couple economic classes so I am hardly qualified to assess the global economic situation and provide a suitable solution.  The world economy is so interconnected that a crash in one market will cause a domino effect that affects the entire global economy.

I selected World Hunger/ Poverty as the top problem.  It was difficult to rank these problems because they are all so large scale.  I justify World Hunger / Poverty as the biggest problem because it’s astonishing to me the difference in quality of life across the world.  The difference between the quality of life in a developed country vs a less developed country is huge.  Even the poorest in the United States live a much better life than others in less developed countries.  I think this is one of the biggest problems in the world.  I also think that the most implementable solution relates to world hunger.  I ranked it as the easiest and most implementable because it is a much less complex issue than the others.  All the United States would have to do would be to fund the infrastructure of less developed countries.  Of course this is extremely unlikely and probably not in our best interest. We already give a lot in foreign aid and it is probably not likely that we would give more, unless it was part of a larger global initiative.