Top 5 World Problems

PROBLEMS:
(Most serious to Least serious)

1. Greed
2. Gender Equality
3. Access to Clean Water
4. Access to Medical Care
5. World-Wide Basic Education

SOLUTIONS:

(Most possible to Least possible)

1. World-Wide Basic Education: Education is the one thing that we can pass on to countries that those countries themselves can build upon and pass down to their own younger generations. If we could tax the wealthiest top percent of most developed nations and funnel that fund into the construction of schools to teach these countries simple, yet effective skills (like building efficient wells and pipes lines). Providing teaches that can teach and shape the next generation of these nation's youth, so that eventually their own citizens could become the teachers. There are so many underlying factors I'm avoiding, but this is the general idea I could see working.
2. Gender Equality: Too many nations (ours included) place an emphasis on what the difference between men and women are. In more a developed nation's culture women are over sexualized in the media, and in a lower developed nation's culture women are just lucky to have basic human rights. With the proper education (why I listed it first) the next generation of the youth in developed nations should be taught to treat women not like walking condoms, but rather as human beings, as the left hand to your right; not as a being that needs help, but one you ask for help if you so need it. These are the same things that need to be taught to the next generation in lesser developed nations as well, but with the emphasis that they're not just creatures to be old off to a husband, but that they're individuals that deserve every right and privilege offered to men.
3. Access to Clean Water: Water is the most basic need a human can have. When it comes to developed countries like the U.S. even our homeless can find clean water without too much difficulty, but for other less developed countries. There are many organizations around the world trying to get these nations the access they need to have clean water, but there's almost too many people with too little technology or knowledge to keep up with. I think the more we (as developed countries) educate and support these nations, the more they'll grow and eventually be able to stand on their own feet. Another reason I think education is the most possible problem to change.
4. Access to Medical Care: This goes along with access to water and gender inequality in my opinion, it all starts with education. When discussing less developed nations and the needs they have, medicine is usually near the top if the list. Building more medical stations throughout nations and cultures that require them would significantly raise their standard of living and provide them the opportunity to focus less on survival and more on growth as a whole.
5. Greed/Radical Idealism: This, in my opinion, is probably impossible to change. It is because of greed that influential figures cause their nation to fall, and their people along with it. This is a problem of culture and up bringing, one that begins with changing how a people view their world. If corrupt, socialist bureaucrats and radical, war-ridden extremist could one day see eye-to-eye, lay down their "weapons", and realize the detrement that they each are bringing upon their own people...maybe there rest of the problems I list will succeed.

Notice that the top of each list, and the bottom of each list, is reversed. This has one very important meaning: the hardest problem to solve is the one that's the most serious in our world (and vice versa). In my solutions list, education was listed first because I think the more educated the people around the world are, the more that the following problems can be solved. Unfortunately, the one problem that I'm not positive education can solve is greed and radical idealism. Greed spreads like a virus, infecting those that see it as means to an end; an easy way out. Greed isn't always a bad thing, in small, controlled doses, but when it rules over a nation or commands an army...it's hardly a gnat the world can ignore. I placed it as the hardest problem to solve because I'm not sure the rest of the problems on my list can fully be realized while it exists in such extreme forms around the world.