Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Most Important Issues
The three most important issues that we have addressed this year are child soilders, the AIC and the declining environment and biodiversity. Child slavery is something that has been in the news recently due to the amount of awareness raised for Koney 2012 and since we watched the movie invisible children in class it has even more prevalence. Though we didn't spend much time looking over this issue it is something that has stuck in my mind as an issue that has no immediate solution. Other issues such as world hunger have the goal of providing food and water but child soilders has to be stopped with the help of the government of that country. This becomes a difficult situation as most of the governments involved are corrupt and make the problem worse by not allowing aid to the children and families that are effected. The AIC took us half the year to complete including a simulation and various write ups. We each were assigned a country and tried to problem solve real life issues that have been taking place. It was important to see how complicated the issues were and as well how childlike some of the leaders were acting. The problems aren't just cut and dry because for every solution there is another problem that seems to accompany it. Some people just wouldn't co-operate which would also happen between disputing nations in the real world. I learned a lot about the root of some of the problems effecting the AIC and how much religion really does play a part. The environment and biodiversity were topics that often came up due to other issues. They are a huge problem and although the course wasn't particularly about this topic it is a world issue and and I believe it is one of the most important.
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I agree with you that there is no immediate solution to child soldiers. This is one of those issues where something else has to be fixed before it can be. In this case issues such as poverty need to improve first before any real progress can be made. The environment and declining biodiversity are so important, mainly because they are tomorrow's problems. They are not affecting us so much today but if left unchecked they have the potential to destroy the world as we know it. This makes in absolutely necessary to start putting solutions in place now before the situation gets too out of hand.
ReplyDeleteChild slavery is a huge issue that i find gets put on the back burner to much. This is because we don't see it in our regular lives. but it shouldn't be like that. There should be more emphasis on the horrible thing children are being forced to do and a huge move should be made to stop it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all of your points, those 3 issues are very important. And unfortuantely, like you said, there are no immediate solutions to the problems. Also, many other world issues such as poverty cause child slavery and child soldiers. Raising awareness is one step to stopping and combating many of the world issues. Once awareness is made to a majority of the population, people will be motivated to create change.
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