What Is The Single Most Critical Problem Facing Us Today?

What do I consider to be the single most important societal problem? Well that is a big thing to think about. I think that how parents are raising their children to have no respect to others, their age is one thing but letting them have no respect to adults such as teachers and people waiting on them that is a whole other thing, is something that has gotten way out of control in this generation. Children are having attitudes and being rude to people who are only trying to help them. They don’t seem to care that the people are trying their best to please them but it never seems to matter. In these children’s eyes these adults are not helping them they are simply there to be their “servant”. Raising your children to have respect is not a

During the past several hundred years, civilization has made rapid progress in industries like air travel, automobiles, and energy production. These developments were made without consideration of the long-term effects that their emissions may have on the planet. Changing weather patterns are now wreaking havoc around the world, and scientists attribute this to human-caused climate change. During President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2015, he stated that, “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” (“Remarks by the President”). Warming temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change have disastrous consequences that pose a threat to humanity and the environment.

The election of 2000 took place during a time that was mostly peaceful, unemployment rates were historically low, but however, there were a record number of terrorist threats (Muhlhausen). Despite all of these headlining topics presidential candidate Al Gore and Vice President Joe Lieberman were far more concerned about global climate change (“Al”). Gore was, and still, is very passionate about this topic (“Al”, 9). He has challenged the two biggest polluters in the world, China and The United States to, “Make the boldest move in climate change.” Figure 5

In response to the question “What do you consider to be the single most important societal problem and why?” It’s simple. With all the chaos our world today, these issues could be resolved with the use of communication. Communication is where most issues begin.

There are many issues America faces including healthcare, gun control, education, immigration and so on. I think the greatest problem facing the United States is the economy. There is a widening change between the rich and the poor with the shrinking of the middle class. The phrase the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is making more sense. Granted the economy has improved while President Obama came into office however there still is a lot of homeless people. There still is a challenge for people who do not have the requirements or degree for jobs. Sometimes people put off going to college because that itself costs too much and attending may result in them being in debt trying to pay back loans.

The Middle East, North Africa, ISIS, nuclear warfare, and other terrorist threats are all external threats that face the United States today. But, what most people don’t realize is the biggest threats the US is currently facing, is actually in our own backyard. What we don’t realize is that the problems we should be solving, is the ones that we are creating.

One of the most hotly debated topics of the century has without a doubt been global warming. With all the issues going on in the world today one may assume this problem would not be at the forefront of America's mind, but in fact the exact opposite is true. Global warming is such a controversial topic due to many diverse reasons. For one, it is still queried whether or not an earth-wide warming is actually occurring. This is where much of the debate arises from, but individuals also want to know what our effect truly has been on the planet and what can be done pertaining to the issue. If global warming is happening and our earth is winding down, as dwellers on this planet we all desire to find a way to stop such a catastrophic decline.

Climate change is a big issue now a day and it is becoming increasingly more dangerous to our world. Climate change affects almost every aspect of our life whether we realize it or not. Over the past few years, we as a planet has suffered many devastating natural disasters struggles with our health, and overall a struggle to adapt to our ever-changing environment. Many people know that climate change is an issue, but they fail to realize what the effects are of climate change. This is something that takes a major toll on us and should not be ignored.

People are the ultimate problem. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet. As the population increases more and more every day, so does the consumption of natural resources. Ever since the first bacteria that was able to breathe air, no living thing has ever affected Earth as much as humans have. By increasing the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere with pollution and decreasing carbon sinks from deforestation, humanity is changing the climate.Today the Earth has the highest CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.The atmosphere has more CO2 than it has had in the past 800,000 years. Through the burning of fossil fuels, land use, and waste combined humans have released about 2,000 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Earth is warming ten times faster than at the end of an ice age. In an interview John Farley, he said “quote about making the drain smaller” proving that there are some small things Americans can do to change the drain size. Last time the CO2 levels were this high, the sea level was 20 to 30 feet higher. Despite all the evidence, a large chunk of the U.S. population refuses to accept that global warming is real. Public awareness is an important component of an effective response to climate change. While the world might not be able to pull a complete turnaround any time soon, the human race can work on changing the little things that make a big difference. Global warming is a reality people need to face and work towards addressing in order to ensure the planet's

For what seems like forever, humans have been littering and polluting Earth without any thought in mind about the consequences that our negligent actions could bring. People did not think about the impact that their decisions would have, but now those decisions are finally catching up to us through climate change. Man-made climate change has been happening around Earth for such a long time that it is now the primary cause of most of the America’s problems and has killed countless amounts of people.

    “There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent threat of a changing climate.” (Barack Obama). Climate change has been a popular topic of discussion for years now, due to its crucial threat to our environment. The world will forever be altered if climate change isn’t taken into serious consideration and not in a good way. Climate change is happening now and immediate action should be taken to stop it. The damage to our earth cannot always be undone. Climate change has had many negative effects from damaging coral reefs or the increase of wildfires, but most importantly rising sea levels.

The increasing severity and frequency of climate change impacts calls for an immediate need to alter the way we conceive and respond to developing issues. Challenges such as war and financial recessions tend to be relatively short, over in less than ten years. Election cycles and national plans are usually over in less than five. By contrast, climate change and its impacts are set to progressively and noticeably worsen over the next twenty years and accelerate catastrophically into the final half of this century and beyond. Unless measures are put in place over the near term. We must pro-actively consider climate change problems in the long-term and find sustainable solutions that will help vulnerable populations adapt to unavoidable impact while advocating for global changes needed to slow climate change’s pace.

Climate change is without a doubt an issue that affects the entire world and its population, scientific consensus on its existence is substantial and is nearly impossible to refute. As a society we should be working together towards the single goal of reducing our contribution to climate change and restoring already affected parts of the environment. Developing themes of hope, urgency and action that function at the core of this movement to invigorate and precipitate support and action for the movement. However, this is not the case in our society today these core concepts are contested by cognitive, cultural, emotional, communicative and political challenges that effectively divide us as a people against these themes; making actions now holistically ineffective with divided support.

However “global warming is the most urgent environmental challenge of the 21st century” (Casper 1). So many of us humans don’t pay attention to global warming, that it is more often over looked than any other problem in society. When it

To me, climate change is one of the most pressing issues we face today. That is why I emailed Representative Kionne L. McGhee, about his view on climate change. I believe a focus on preventing climate change, is crucial to the well-being of every living thing on the planet. However, I understand that climate might be one of the most crucial problems affecting the planet, it is also one of the most hardest to fix. It is a highly controversial issue because people either believe it is a crucial issue needing to be fixed now or believes it does not even exist, at least to the extent scientists say it is. However, I personally believe climate change is an issue that needs worldwide cooperation.