...an argumentative piece explaining and justifying my view on what constitutes the greatest problem in the world...
Poverty, along with hunger, disease, and the lack of drinking water, is the greatest contemporary problem in the world. According to The Hunger project, 842 million, or one in every eight people in the world, do not have enough to eat. And 3 billion people, nearly ½ of the world’s population, live on less than $2.50 a day, furthermore, more than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day or less, (from Do something.org.) It is correct to say there are other issues in the world that people have to solve, e.g. climate change, economic situation, international terrorism, and availability of energy, and although all of them interconnect, poverty, is seemed to be the greatest problem in the world.
Looking at how to determine the greatest problem in the world, it is often said that the number of death caused by the issue is the greatest factor. And although we cannot simply conclude that the #1 cause of death is to be accounted as the greatest problem (cardiovascular diseases, from WHO,) we could compare the death rate of high income countries to the low and middle income countries.
NCDs, or non-communicable diseases, are often thought as a natural death, (definition of natural death: death occurring in the course of nature and from natural causes (as age or disease) as opposed to accident or violence, from merriam-webster,) but it is indeed a disease that could be lesson under a correct and healthy diet. The top four NCDs are cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and cancer. Two of the common causes of these diseases are the lack of healthy diet and the sedentary lifestyle, which is seen in most low income countries. As a matter of fact, 36 million people die each year because of NCDs where 29 million of them occur in low income countries, (from WHO.) Adding on, 90% of NCDs death before the age of 60, around 9 million, occurs in low and middle income countries. These are deaths that could be prevented through a healthy diet and proper physical activities.
If we were to directly compare the main differences in respect to the cause of death between the rich and poor countries, we could tell further apart that the real problem the world should be facing is poverty. Seventy percent of deaths in high income countries are among people aged 70 and older, whereas only twenty percent of deaths in low income countries are among the people aged 70 and older. An astonishing forty percent of the deaths in low income countries are children under 15 years old, while it is around 1% in high income counties. Elaborating even more, 6.6 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday, and almost all (99%) of these deaths occurred in low and middle income countries.
Looking at how to determine the greatest problem in the world, it is often said that the number of death caused by the issue is the greatest factor. And although we cannot simply conclude that the #1 cause of death is to be accounted as the greatest problem (cardiovascular diseases, from WHO,) we could compare the death rate of high income countries to the low and middle income countries.
NCDs, or non-communicable diseases, are often thought as a natural death, (definition of natural death: death occurring in the course of nature and from natural causes (as age or disease) as opposed to accident or violence, from merriam-webster,) but it is indeed a disease that could be lesson under a correct and healthy diet. The top four NCDs are cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and cancer. Two of the common causes of these diseases are the lack of healthy diet and the sedentary lifestyle, which is seen in most low income countries. As a matter of fact, 36 million people die each year because of NCDs where 29 million of them occur in low income countries, (from WHO.) Adding on, 90% of NCDs death before the age of 60, around 9 million, occurs in low and middle income countries. These are deaths that could be prevented through a healthy diet and proper physical activities.
If we were to directly compare the main differences in respect to the cause of death between the rich and poor countries, we could tell further apart that the real problem the world should be facing is poverty. Seventy percent of deaths in high income countries are among people aged 70 and older, whereas only twenty percent of deaths in low income countries are among the people aged 70 and older. An astonishing forty percent of the deaths in low income countries are children under 15 years old, while it is around 1% in high income counties. Elaborating even more, 6.6 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday, and almost all (99%) of these deaths occurred in low and middle income countries.