World's Biggest Problems

1.) Air pollution makes living in densely populated areas. Air in certain cities in China is so polluted from car exhaust fumes that it is impossible to see and people are getting sick everyday.

Solution: Heavily push the development of electric cars to make them accessible and a viable option for people. If more people in dense urban areas have electric cars, the cleaner the air will be.

2.) The amount of waste the world produces is too large and effecting our environment. There are islands of trash floating around in the sea contaminating the water and large acres of land with nothing but garbage giving off harmful fumes.

Solution: Require or promote companies to re-use waste in their products. Coca Cola has a program where they make handbags and other accessories out of recycled waste. If more companies that could replace their materials they use to make their products use recycled waste instead, the amount of trash laying around in the world would decrease.

3.) People, especially children, in 3rd world countries have little to no access to technology. Our world now revolves around computers and the internet. It can be detrimental for someone to not understand how to use these things work.

Solution: Have more tech companies or organizations send people to these countries to teach people how to use certain technologies.

4.) Kids who now grow up with the internet don't know how to act properly online. They can act viciously and don't know the right way to act online in certain scenarios.

Solution: Have a section or program in school that teaches kids how to treat other people online. Teach them the do's and don'ts of social media can be something they should learn early on.

5.) Higher education doesn't prepare people for the real world. While colleges teach people what they need to know for their careers, they aren't teaching young people how to deal with everyday situations they could face in their life.

Solution: Have certain courses or organizations to help people develop skills they would need for everyday life when they leave college.

6.) Accurate and unbiased journalism has decreased since the rise of the internet. We live in a time where the most informative, accurate, and unbiased journalism comes more from comedians than actual journalists. News media at times is more concerned with making things more profitable and keeping things interesting.

Solution: Provide media companies with more funds so they can focus less on how to make things profitable and focus more providing more reliable journalism.

7.) Many countries around the world are either dealing with under population or over population. Japan, for instance, is experiencing a rapid decline in their population.

Solution: Have countries who face over population problems promote immigration to the countries with under population to help balance their demographics.

8.) People around the world continue to text or use their phones while driving. Even though there have been countless number of campaigns advising people to not do and people know how dangerous it is, they still do it.

Solution: Advance the hands free technology in cars so people are more inclined to use that instead of looking at their phones. Certain cars allow you to send and read texts and control your music without looking on your phone. If all cars had that and had better voice recognition to make using it easier, more people would stop looking at their phones while driving.

9.) There is too much wasted food. People are very quick to dispose of something when they see the expiration date is passed, even though for most products its still perfectly edible. Many times the expiration date is put on by companies to make people by more of their product instead of being accurate. Any vegetables or fruits not bought in stores in thrown away.

Solution: Enact a law that requires companies to show a true expiration date on foods. Allow vegetables and fruits not bought to be donated.

10.) Many people have no idea how politics work, even though it is something important in our lives. Many are uninformed of new acts being passed or what goes on in our government.

Solution: Have a required class in high school or college teach people the basic concepts of their countries government.