Here are World’s 9 Biggest Problems
The world is getting worse day by day. Global warming, wars, increasing inequality are just some problems we have now.
The show “The Fix” I came across on Netflix recently touches on these facts somewhat sarcastically. I’ve compiled for you the staggering statistics I heard while watching the show, so to speak.
1) Social Media Addiction
50% of those who use Social Media say that it negatively affects their relationships. While the time people spend time on social media around the world is 135 minutes a day, this time is only 75 minutes for eating and drinking. Given the fact that we spend 39 minutes a day with our loved ones, we seem to prefer our online lives to the outside world.
2) Immigration
First-generation immigrants have a lower crime rate than the average crime rate of the country’s citizens and earn much less money than citizens. Second-generation immigrants, children of the first immigrants, commit crimes at the same rate as the citizens of the country and receive almost the same salary.
Second-generation immigrants receive more education than their parents and citizens of the country.
3) Artificial Intelligence
By 2030, almost half of the jobs are expected to be done by machines.
Some professions that are expected to be completely taken over by machines; 99% probability telemarketing, 98% probability of refereeing, and 92% probability of retail sales will be done by machines.
Some occupations where machines are least likely to be captured; 0.4% probability choreographer, dentistry, a primary school teacher. The likelihood of the therapists’ jobs being taken away is 0.28%.
4) Increase in the Elderly Population
By 2045, it is expected that there will be more people aged 75 and over than children in the US. According to the world average, women live 3 years longer than men. However, men live longer than women in Bahrain, Bhutan, and Kuwait, possibly due to the lack of women’s rights.
5) Income Injustice
When a man in the US stops working on November 14, he gets the same wage as a woman who works until the end of the year.
When a white man retires at 64, Hispanic men must work by the age of 83, black men by 85, Asian and white women by 93, black women by 105, and Hispanic women by the age of 118 to earn the total earnings.
6) Global Warming
6.1 kilograms of carbon dioxide are emitted in the production of a cheeseburger. In the USA, 250,000 tons of carbon dioxide is released every year by burning the bodies of people who die. This amount is the same as the damage by 41,000 cars. Although the countries that cause the most global warming are China, the USA, India, and Russia, things can change when considering the per capita pollution. According to the amount of carbon production per capita, the most polluting countries; Energy exporting small countries such as Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain, and touristy small islands such as Trinidad and Tobago. The country with the least damage to the environment is a 26 square meter Oceania country called Tuvalu.
7) Armament
More Americans have been killed by guns in the last 50 years than in wars in all of American history.
In America, the risk of being killed by a gun is equal to the risk of death in a traffic accident, in Japan, this rate is equal to the risk of dying by lightning. In Australia, the risk of someone being killed by a gun is the same as that person’s risk of falling out of bed.
While arms sales have increased by 63% since 2000, the number of people with weapons has been decreasing.
Arms sales in the United States increased mostly in February, when the hunting season opened, and in December when New Year’s gifts were received.
8) Drug Use
A segment that makes up 5% of the world’s population consumes 80% of Opioid drugs all over the world. 32% in Australia and 29% in England. The countries with the highest opioid drug addiction are the USA, Australia, and England, where the pain is felt the most.
9) The Dissolution of the Middle Class
The wealth of the 8 richest people in the world is equal to the sum of the wealth of the poorest 50% of humanity.
The biggest cause of the wealth difference is the wage difference between workers and senior managers; Wal-Mart CEO gets 1188 times more salary than his workers, GAP CEO 2900 times, McDonald's CEO 3101 times more. There are companies where the difference is not that big: Fitbit CEO earns only $23 for every dollar their employees earn, while Tesla CEO Elon Musk earns the minimum wage.
