Hannah Mae C.

Gahisan
The Contemporary World (GCW TTHS 10-11AM)
Assignment:

5 Global Issues and their Effects

1. Food Security
- Food insecurity is the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active
and healthy life. Its effects include hunger, increase in food prices,
unemployment, rise in health- related costs, violent conflicts, and damage to
the physical and social well- being of children. Due to this, it is being
considered the biggest threat of the human population.
2. Major Global Health Issues (COVID-19)
- One major global health issue that is being faced by the world today is the
occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has resulted to the slow economic
growth of countries, livelihood is hindered due to health protocols being
practiced, impairment of educational systems, increase of poverty, and the
damage to the physical, mental, and social health of people causing an uproar
in the society.
3. The Need for Gender Equality
- Gender equality is the state of equal ease of access to resources and
opportunities regardless of gender. It results to positive effects to the world
such as the prevention of violence against women and girls, establishes the
growth of unity for the economy, provides every people their equal rights, and
as well as makes our communities holistically healthier and safer.
4. Global Environmental Issues
- The existence of global environmental issues, including pressure on land, land
degradation, forests and other habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss, have
lead the planet to suffer major damages in the forms of air, water, and land
pollution, global warming, climate change, and the scarcity of resources
among others deterring the planet’s health and putting the human population’s
safety at cost.
5. Overpopulation
- The human population is becoming a burden to the planet and its capacity to
sustain. It has caused problems to humans which include increase in demand
for resources such as food, water, and shelter leading to starvation and
malnutrition, consumption of natural resources, such as fossil fuels, faster than
the rate of regeneration, and a deterioration in living conditions causing more
harm to the overall health of Earth and its people.