A World of Problems: The World's Biggest Problems

#1 Armed Conflict: Including terrorism, wars are something that leave implants on our world and society long after they have passed. Wars cause hatred, destruction, and cost a lot of money that could be used on things that better our society-rather than puncturing it.
Solution: It's really hard to pin down a solution for this huge problem, but one possibility could be increased strictness on who can govern a whole country, to eliminate extremist points of view from power (hopefully calming down any feelings of hatred that would lead to terrorism/war).

#2 Environmental Issues: Global warming, pollution, climate change, natural resource depletion-the list goes on and on. Things that go into creating these problems include the burning of fossil fuels, the careless use of materials like plastic and styrofoam, and the emission of green house gases. Environmental problems are amongst the worst yet most important- because without the world we live on, nothing is possible.
Solution: Enforce and increase laws regarding the use of these things that are toxic to our planet. Furthermore, create ads to raise awareness about our environment, to persuade people to be more cautionary.

#3 Global Population: Our population is growing faster than it ever has before, which leads to huge problems throughout the world regarding resources. Scarcity exists in our world, and when we run out of resources due to overpopulation we risk ruining our planet. With the limited amount of resources and the growing amount of people, something bad would have to happen in order to get the system back into balance again.
Solution: Find a way to allocate our resources more effectively and efficiently; so that what we do have can be used to the best of its ability.

#4 Intense Poverty: A lot of countries face serious poverty, which can lead to immense problems. These problems do not only hurt the country in which it occurs, but it ripples down and hurts the whole world. People living in poverty do not have the simplest things necessary for survival, and when one country hurts, we all hurt.
Solution: It is very difficult to try to think of a single solution for this intense problem, but one suggestion would be to have wealthier countries make donations to build up other countries who may not have the resources to get out of serious poverty.

#5 Water Supply: Water is becoming more and more scarce, and it's becoming a serious problem. Not only are droughts an issue, but the accessibility of water in some places is causing serious deaths. Some places that lack water for their respective population include Antigua and Jamaica, for example. Around 1.4 million children die each year due to lack of water.
Solution: Put more portable water filters in countries that need it so that non-drinkable water becomes clean and usable on demand.

#6  Education: Possibly the most important thing for the continuation of a society, yet very over-looked. Although in some places education is very accessible, it is not this way everywhere. There are a lot of problems, especially in the United States, where kids in elementary school are being passed through grades despite their failure. Education everywhere needs to be taken more seriously starting from the bottom up.
Solution: Implement more serious passing standards in our schools so that kids don't just "slip through the cracks".

#7 Income Inequality: The disparities between income is still a problem. Of course, the differences of salaries between a highly trained professional and that of a McDonald's worker are understandable, but when and if huge gaps continue to occur, we could be in more of an economical world of trouble.
Solution: Although well deserved, maybe tone CEO pay just a little bit, so that they still make well above the rest of their company but the disparity isn't as huge.

#8 Political Equality: Well, equality in general as well. If you're not looked at as equal in the eyes of the law, your basic rights get taken away. It's been happening since the beginning of our history, and although things have improved, people are still being treated unfairly.
Solution: Many laws have been implemented and not actually enforced until recently (for example, the civil rights act, gay marriage). Making men and women pay the same could be one law installed to heighten equality here in America.

#9 Unemployment: Unemployment has been ranking its highest since the Great Depression, and it is obviously not a good thing. A lot of Veterans can not find work when they return home, people simply lack the skill and knowledge to have a job, and others choose not to work. All of these things and more create problems for our economy and the people themselves.
Solution: Although a little unemployment must always exist to keep the economy going, the number could be lowered greatly by having special places where people can go to have their skill set analyzed and then directed towards jobs; because a large part of unemployment is people having great skills and education, but just not being able to find/get the jobs they could, and instead take on a lower skill-set job.

#10 Loss of Species: Relating to the environmental issues, the loss of species can cause serious damage to our world. Losing the tiniest part of our ecosystem creates an imbalance that leaves disastrous effects, like the loss of even more species and thus ultimate termination of everything we have on this planet that us humans survive off of.
Solution: Stricter and enforced laws on hunting, and also spreading awareness about our planet and ecosystems.