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The World Today
Overpopulation 
Where: China, India, etc.
Solution: Family planning in the form of birth control
programs, improved farming methods (by increasing food production to keep pace with population growth), and more equitable distribution of food.
Definition: The overabundance of people in a region or area that lacks sufficient resources to adequately provide its people.
Desertification
The most dramatic example is Africa's Sahara desert, which is expanding by 50 miles per year. The countries that border the Sahara, which once had fertile land, are now becoming part of the desert.
In order to control desertification, we must undo the factors
that cause it. We can plant trees to act as a natural barrier against soil erosion and restrict cattle from overgrazing the land.
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Deforestation
Deforestation is the biggest threat in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest, which covers about 2.7 million square miles. Deforestation is also a threat to forests in Africa and Southeast Asia.
The United Nations has proposed reducing the massive foreign debt of Brazil and other countries in return for a guarantee to not destroy their forests. Another solution would be to reduce the demand for wood and other forest products consumed by the United States, Japan, and other Western countries.
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Global Warming
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Solution: Encouraging cleaner forms of energy (not fossil fuels), placing stricter controls on automatic emissions, restricting the use of chlorofluorocarbons.
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AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Where: AIDS cases were first identified in Africa, but it has since become a global epidemic.
Solution: Increased research to find a cure for AIDS and educational programs to stop the spread of the disease.
Definition: A disease that damages the body's natural immune system, severely limiting its ability to fight infections.
Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Proliferation)
Brazil, Argentina, Libya, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq are starting to develop nuclear weapons. Given the social and political climates of these countries, the prevention of nuclear weapon use is vital.
The United States and Soviet Union developed the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty which prohibits the testing of nuclear weapons in space, above ground, and underwater.
Definition: the spread of nuclear weapons to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Human Rights
Where: Examples of human rights violations include the Holocaust, which was committed by the Nazis during WWII, the pogroms in the Soviet Union under the czars, and the African slave trade between Africa and the Americas.
Solution: Human rights can be upheld by passing laws, such as the Foreign Assistance Act passed by the US, which cut aid to any government guilty of violating human rights. Additionally, organizations, like Amnesty International, monitor human rights violations worldwide and put pressure on governments to release their political prisoners.
Definition: The social, political, and economic freedoms that each individual has a right to possess.
Terrorism
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Efforts to stop terrorism include increasing security in airports and sharing information through INTERPOL (the International Police Network)
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Hunger and Famine
The African continent has experienced major famines for many years. Today in Yemen, at least 5 million people are on the brink of famine and a further 16 million are “marching toward starvation.”
The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing food assistance in Yemen. They provide nearly 13 million people with food assistance as in-kind rations of flour, pulses, oil, sugar, salt, or voucher or cash to purchase the same quantity of food.
Definition: severe and prolonged hunger in a substantial proportion of the population of a region or country
International Debt
Where: Many of the nations of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe face large and growing international debts
Solution: A return to political stability in all debt-ridden countries, along with debt forgiveness, might be the only workable solutions.
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