Showing posts with label top global problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top global problems. Show all posts

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Thoughts from Kurt Vonnegut

Found this on YouTube and thought it might support the awesome work this group is doing.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

The results of the posts

Thanks to all of you who posted over break! The top three problems were:

1. Global Warming
2. Disease (mainly HIV/AIDS)
3. War

Below are the tallies for everything that was posted. Below the problem is an (*). Each (*) represents each time a problem was listed. Some people listed very similar problems and these were grouped together.



Disease HIV/AIDS
*************************
Global Warming / Pollution
**************************
Poverty
*************
Military / War / Corruption
******************
Nuclear Proliferation
******
Darfur
****
Loss of Biodiversity
***
Dependency on oil
*****
Human Rights
*
Loss of middle class
*
Education opportunities
*
Social instability
*
Loss of resources
*
Ignorance
*
Gay Marriage
*
Communism
*
Not enough resources
***
Religious conflict
**
Displacement of refuges
*
The stuff in Blood Diamond
*
Loss of ozone
**
Extreme destitution in Africa
*
Terrorism
**
Lack of drinkable water
**
UNC losing to Georgetown
*
Pollution
***
Equity among people
*
Natural Disasters
****
Genocide
**
Use of fossil fuels
**
Next power source
*
Globalization leading to a growing income gap in all parts of the world
*
Starvation / Hunger
***
Deaths
*
Health Care
*
Sanitation
*