Top 5 World Problems

Top 5 Problems:

1. Oil Drilling
• Oil drilling is the most important issue because of any awful effects it has on the environment, as well as unwanted foreign friendships it makes by putting countries, such as the U.S., in a position of dependency on other nations that might not otherwise be allies with.
2. Fracking
• Fracking is very important because it hits home. It is much more in Americans view. It is a dangerous and possibly hazardous act that can only go on for so long before we all may be regretful a little too late.
3. Education
• Without fixing the educational system as it currently is, we are not just handicapping large portions of future generations, but also the United States as a whole. Education has always been held to a high standard because without it we know there can be no future is one of the top most power nations in the world. I believe we have somewhat lost this sight though in the years since Apollo 11 and the race to try to learn the most about space first, and I think it's time that the U.S. brings the goal back into full sight or we may actually have a potential in majorly falling behind.
  
4. Terrorism
• Terrorism is a huge world-wide dilemma being faced currently and most people are truly terrified for their lives. This being said, this should be one of the upmost important issues facing the world today.
5. Discrimination
• Discrimination is such a big issue that is surprisingly still facing the world today, in 2016. Though this issue is of major importance and is just silly that it still exists, it is not the most life-threatening as the other problems, which is why it still made top five, but is listed last.

Solutions:

1. Discrimination. 
• So many things could easily be implemented to fix this problem. A huge step in the right direction, that would be outrageously easy to put into effect, would be to ban the confederate flag, a flag that stands for a outdated belief in which southerners though African Americans' only purpose to work as slaves and never free. We now live in a world in which we know this not to be true, so why are we still waiving this flag?
2. Fracking.
• Fracking and oil drilling have very similar solutions but because fracking it much more locally chosen and affected, I think it is a slightly more implementable solution than oil drilling because the U.S. would not have to worry about possible foreign tensions being created.
3. Oil Drilling.
• That being said, ending drilling for oil would be the one of the easiest solutions to achieve because of so many known and existing other power sources that could rather easily be implemented.
4. Education
• So much money goes into oil, war, and other affairs that could be better invested in education. So many countries pay most or all of students education expenses. Some countries provide free secondary public education (such as college), and that often includes free textbooks, and other countries will not only provide free public education, but will also invest more money into students by paying them some hundred dollars a month for living expenses to be subsidized. If the federal and state budgets were more evenly distributed, I think college in the U.S. could more easily follow in these other examples, or at least be extremely reduced in costs as opposed to the expenses that currently exist.
5. Terrorism 
• I honestly have no idea as to truly "fix" this major world problem, which is why terrorism is at the bottom of this list, however it is still such an important issue facing the world today.