The Most Important Issues of the Modern World
1. The most important problems of the modern (contemporary) world.
The modern world, the world that we live in is exposed to many perils. Among the major problems are poverty, unemployment, wars, terrorism, racism, air pollution, climate change/global warming, and diseases.
Poverty
The gap between rich and poor nations is still growing. Although rich nations have provided aid and technical assistance to Third World nations, the developing nations face many obstacles in their drive to modernize. The population explosion, inflation, natural disasters, poor planning, and even government corruption have upset the development plans of many Third World nations. Some progress has been made in increasing food production. Researchers developed new high-yield crops as well as disease- and drought resistant crops.
Unemployment
Unemployment is caused by many factors in a modern market economy. It can be caused by rapid technological change, business cycle or recessions, seasonal factors in some industries particularly such as changes in tastes and climatic conditions which affects demand for certain products and services, individual perceptions and willingness to work and search for jobs, their values and attitudes towards some jobs and about employers, accessibility for retraining and acquisition of work skills, willingness and perception of unemployed of the benefits of training and the possibility for them to get a job after the training even though they have a chance to get a job, discrimination in the workplace based on race, colour, religion, ethnicity, age and class.
The United Nations says that nearly 212 million people were unemployed in 2009. That is 6.6 per cent of the global workforce. According to a new report the situation in Europe will get worse before the trend improves. The report predicts that the number will increase during 2010 with about 3 million more people unemployed.
Wars
First, war is wrong for the same reasons that murder is wrong. Because war is
The modern world, the world that we live in is exposed to many perils. Among the major problems are poverty, unemployment, wars, terrorism, racism, air pollution, climate change/global warming, and diseases.
Poverty
The gap between rich and poor nations is still growing. Although rich nations have provided aid and technical assistance to Third World nations, the developing nations face many obstacles in their drive to modernize. The population explosion, inflation, natural disasters, poor planning, and even government corruption have upset the development plans of many Third World nations. Some progress has been made in increasing food production. Researchers developed new high-yield crops as well as disease- and drought resistant crops.
Unemployment
Unemployment is caused by many factors in a modern market economy. It can be caused by rapid technological change, business cycle or recessions, seasonal factors in some industries particularly such as changes in tastes and climatic conditions which affects demand for certain products and services, individual perceptions and willingness to work and search for jobs, their values and attitudes towards some jobs and about employers, accessibility for retraining and acquisition of work skills, willingness and perception of unemployed of the benefits of training and the possibility for them to get a job after the training even though they have a chance to get a job, discrimination in the workplace based on race, colour, religion, ethnicity, age and class.
The United Nations says that nearly 212 million people were unemployed in 2009. That is 6.6 per cent of the global workforce. According to a new report the situation in Europe will get worse before the trend improves. The report predicts that the number will increase during 2010 with about 3 million more people unemployed.
Wars
First, war is wrong for the same reasons that murder is wrong. Because war is