Entrepreneur World's Biggest Problems

10 of the world's biggest problems

The global water crisis

According to the World Bank and World Health Organization, there are 2 billion people that do not have access to clean water and another 1 billion people that don't have enough water to meet their daily needs. We need to come up with affordable solutions to access water and to purify it for consumption.

Global extinction of species that are important to the human food chain.

We need to improve agricultural fertilizer and weed and pest control technology so that they will be more environmentally friendly. Changing industrial practices to return water used for industrial purposes can be returned in a usable form back into the environment.

Global warming

We need to improve technology and make it affordable that will reduce the greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuel. Also, we should increase the efficiency and affordability of renewable energy sources.

Global food shortage

find affordable means of agricultural production for the people that need it.

Global unemployment

We should provide retraining for people that have been displaced due to technology. And we need to continue to raise economic investments in emerging economies.

Escalating political and social instability

We need to try to work with these situations to best resolve the cause of the problem.

Global outbreak of disease

We need to do more research and find cures and prevention for diseases and make them available all over the world. Due to the amount of global travel that occurs today, diseases can spread rapidly from one place to another.
Nuclear weapons

We should create an environment that discourages the use of nuclear weapons to resolve a conflict.

Global Overpopulation

The world has finite resources to support our population. We should use education and technology to see that we maintain a world population that the earth can support.

People don't know what the world's problems are.

We need to educate everyone to realize that there are global problems that are going to affect not only them, but their children and their grandchildren and more.