Narrative Essay

Narrative Essay
Alliant International University

Our world today is struggling more than ever, the challenges we face today keep growing more each day making it difficult for our world to become more balanced or “peaceful.” The challenges we face today are many and impact everyone in one way or another. Out of all the challenges we face today, the environment, economy, and oil and gas are the three aspects that affect the world the most. These three challenges are challenges that with the right people and proper actions could easily be fixed with time and determination. Today there are 195 countries in the world and as countries who share Earth and everything that Earth has to offer; we need to work together to find solutions to the challenges that affect the world today. The environment is one of the most urgent global problems we face today. One problem affecting the environment is the Earth’s temperature. The earth is warming up more and more every day and scientists have come to conclude to be human-induced. Due to the Earth warming up, the climate temperature is changing drastically. In some areas in the country the temperature rises to high levels affecting species and habitats all around the world. In other areas, the temperature drops to extreme levels that also affect the habitat and species. For example, in Antarctica the drop in temperature is causing the ice to melt resulting in the loss of habitat for the species in the Artic. In other areas, the rise in temperature is causing droughts around the world. One prime example is the drought affecting California today. This is causing wildfires, limited water resources and limited growth of crops which in turn affect the price of our produce. The economy is the second global challenge we face today. The global financial system is more interconnected today than ever resulting in countries depending on each other for success. Due to countries depending on each other the risk of one country’s economy falling can spread quickly and greatly affect every other countries economy. And although each country may not be affected equally, the reality is that their economy will be impacted greatly. In the U.S. the total amount of debt is growing faster every single day. This debt is due to the amount of social and world problems the U.S. is trying to fix. The reality is that the U.S. is in too much debt to be able to fix all the problems it faces. However, this will be a hard thing to do because it is the government that needs to fix its issues first and come to an agreement on how to fix our declining economy. As of now the U.S. continues to borrow money from other countries making us depend on other countries more and increasing our world debt as well. Without a solution the U.S. could lose a lot of connections and put ourselves in a situation that as a country we wouldn’t want to be in. A third global challenge we face today is one that has lead us and other countries into unnecessary world wars. Oil and gas are a base for many products we use today. Do to oil and gas growing in demand for products, oil and gas has become far too expensive. The rising cost of oil and gas has resulted in countries fighting over it. These wars over oil and gas are wars that not only are unnecessary but are truly hurting us both economically and environmentally. A lot of money is being used in preparing and protecting our men and women to fight in other countries risking their lives for something that I view to be pointless. Our environment is also suffering from these wars, habitats are being destroyed and our air is being polluted by all the gunfire and explosions. With these ongoing wars our economy and environment is going to keep suffering. These three global issues are only three of many other challenges the world is facing today. And it is up to us and government officials from every country to find solutions to these issues no matter how challenging they can be. These issues can be solved with time and determination from the people and government officials. The first step is to fully recognize the issues we face and come together to find solutions to them. Government officials need to set their differences aside by put away their political views and communicate effectively with each other. Until this is done we will be able to communicate with other government officials from other countries and find the right solutions to these global issues. Wars will be terminated and we will be able to live in a more peaceful world. If this is not achieved our global issues will just keep growing and lead us to an agitated world.