Global Issues

Global Issues What are the issues that matter most in today's world?

• How are all
• these global issues connected?

What is a Global Issue?

• A global issue is a broad description that is often used to explain matters of great social concern that affect human populations locally and that are shared among diverse human societies within our global community.

Vocabulary

• Terrorism, Immigration, Famine, Malnutrition, Racism, Pollution, Illiteracy

Malnutrition and Famine

• Malnutrition is a general term for a condition caused by improper diet or nutrition, and can occur in conjunction with both under and over consumption of calories.
• Famine is a widespread scarcity of food that may apply to any fauna species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
• Starvation describes a "state of exhaustion of the body caused by lack of food." This state may precede death.
• Some 850 million people (one in eight of the world's population) go to bed hungry every night.
• Such hunger is not due to a shortage of food – globally there is enough to go round and if (a big if) we make the right decisions now, we can continue to feed the world despite population growth and climate change. For example we can reduce the number of people that are starving by:
• Not wasting food
• Equal distribution of food (Obesity)
• Every 6 seconds one kid dies of hunger.