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Examples Of Global Problems In The Modern World

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AMERICAN COLLAGE OF COMMERCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY RASHMIN PRAJAPATI POL-350 CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS 11/5/2017 SUBMITED TO: SARA HUMMELL GLOBAL POLITICS AND ITS COMPLEXITY Global problems affect the modern world. Today's rapid changes have made countries more interdependent than ever before, shrinking the world into a global village. As the world grows smaller, events in any one area have a greater impact on other parts of the world. National borders do not limit the effects of pollution or environmental destruction. Even poverty in some areas affects other areas because of migration and its impact on the world economy. Three examples of global problems that affect the modern world are famine, pollution, and terrorism. Only few countries are able to produce more food than their citizens need. For the rest of the world, hunger and malnutrition are common. In developing nations, about 150 million children under the age of five go to bed hungry each night. Climate changes and erosion have worsened the problem in some places like Somalia. Moreover, each advance in producing more food is often met with a corresponding increase in population. Terrorism can be defined as the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. It draws attention to a group's grievances and is used to frighten governments into making concessions. Many radical groups use terrorism. The IRA, for example, used terrorism against

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