What is the worlds biggest problem and why? Mark 2

[poddster]

Is true equality attainable or in fact desirable?

[para-gone]

I'm pretty sure I know what the original impetus for the thread was about 😛

[poddster]

Feel free to bow out LL 🙂

I know that it is hard for you to resist  my fandom but strive and you shall achieve 🙂

[poddster]

I'm pretty sure I know what the original impetus for the thread was about 😛

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

🙂

[lakeland27]

material like the following make me stick with hunger and poverty as the big problems.

 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people, or one in eight people in the world, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012).

The number of undernourished people decreased nearly 30 percent in Asia and the Pacific, from 739 million to 563 million, largely due to socio-economic progress in many countries in the region. The prevalence of undernourishment in the region decreased from 23.7 percent to 13.9 percent.

Latin America and the Caribbean also made progress, falling from 65 million hungry in 1990-1992 to 49 million in 2010-2012, while the prevalence of undernourishment dipped from 14.6 percent to 8.3 percent. But the rate of progress has slowed recently.

The number of hungry grew in Africa over the period, from 175 million to 239 million, with nearly 20 million added  in the last few years. Nearly one in four are  hungry. And in sub-Saharan Africa, the modest progress achieved in recent years up to 2007 was reversed, with hunger rising 2 percent per year since then.

Developed regions also saw the number of hungry rise, from 13 million in 2004-2006 to 16 million in 2010-2012, reversing a steady decrease in previous years from 20 million in 1990-1992 (FAO 2012).  http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm

[Anonymous]

Ok I'll make the first post seeing that everyone else is chicken 🙂

Equality is a myth sought by losers who do not want to compete and demand that what they need and wan id handed to them on a platter.

I voted unattainable.

~ world peace and equality is a pipe dream. aint never gonna happen

[kilroy_is_here]

Obviously, there will never be a society where absolutely everybody is equal; plainly people are not totally equal, BUT everybody should have equal opportunity to achieve the best they can.  For that to happen some people may need a leg up.  Child with some learning problems may need extra help, and with that help would hopefully become a productive member of society; without a help may end up illiterate and unemployable.

CEO will never be paid the same wage as a cleaner, but people doing the same job should be all paid equally, regardless of sex.  In that case equality is definitely attainable&desirable.

And people should have the same rights, regardless of sexual orientation, and in the case of right to get married, equality is also definitely attainable&desirable - after all it has been already attained in many countries around the world. 

 sorry disagree with this part, two people doing the same job but one works harder than the other & therefor is more productive, why should they be paid the same as the one who coasts along just doing the bare minimum.

a person should be awarded a job & a pay scale based solely on how well they do the job & what return for the dollar spent by the employer

[*notatroll]

a person should be awarded a job & a pay scale based solely on how well they do the job & what return for the dollar spent by the employer

What you gonna do? Have the employees wear a camera on their hats?

Maybe an overseer? With a whip?

[*notatroll]

wWhere's my edit button? that first sentence was meant to be in italics, signifying a quote. X-(

[idlewhile]

I don't know about the worlds biggest problem but we have Australia's biggest problem since Rudd was put in charge of the boat.