The document discusses several global problems including overpopulation, environmental pollution, corruption, terrorism, and human rights issues facing women and children. It notes that the world's population has grown rapidly from 500 million in the 17th century to over 7 billion currently. This population growth creates issues around resource allocation, migration, and urbanization. Environmental pollution from industry and vehicles is also discussed as a major problem. Corruption, terrorism, and human rights abuses are identified as additional global challenges.
How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World Population 2009.
A fast socio-economic alteration in China had been accompanied with a lessening of several restrictions on basic human rights. However, the communal government of China appears to retain its authoritarian outlook of a single-party nation. Arbitrary curbs are imposed on association, expression, religion and assembly in China and the government even prohibits the formation of independent human rights organizations and labor unions and retains control of the party on every judicial institution in the country.
Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law - IntroductionGraciela Mariani
Synopsis
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different domestic contexts and in international governance.
Preliminary study of the relationship between new risk factors and traditiona...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Feng KONG1,3, Peijun SHI1,2,3, Shao SUN1,3, Man LI1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology of Beijing Normal University, China; 2Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China; 3Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management of Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China
Affordable housing for all in india- Issues and OptionsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Occupying largest space and having largest count in human settlements, housing, despite being critical for human living, quality of life and occupying higher rating in all government policies and programs, has remained elusive for majority of the people belonging to lower end of economic/social pyramid. Housing has emerged as the most complex human problem, ever evolving, ever devolving, never static, never finite and never nearing solution. Increasing human numbers, rapid mass migration/ movement of the people due to shifting of residence in search of better economic opportunities within/across nations have emerged as the major cause of the problem. getting more vexed. Having different connotations and meaning for different communities across the globe , Housing has defied all solutions to make housing for all a distinct reality. As major consumer of energy, resources, land, materials, money, labour and time , housing has assumed complex dimensions in different nations/states /communities. Housing also is known to have impact on environment, ecology and global sustainability. Housing does not remain confined to four walls ; it needs a large network of amenities and services to support it. It has high degree of linkages with the human habitat. Paper looks at the housing in the Indian context, tries to identify different issues and roadblocks which are hindering the growth and development of affordable housing and makes an attempt to define agenda for increasing housing numbers in the affordable housing for the EWS/LIG segment of population.
How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World Population 2009.
A fast socio-economic alteration in China had been accompanied with a lessening of several restrictions on basic human rights. However, the communal government of China appears to retain its authoritarian outlook of a single-party nation. Arbitrary curbs are imposed on association, expression, religion and assembly in China and the government even prohibits the formation of independent human rights organizations and labor unions and retains control of the party on every judicial institution in the country.
Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law - IntroductionGraciela Mariani
Synopsis
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different domestic contexts and in international governance.
Preliminary study of the relationship between new risk factors and traditiona...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Feng KONG1,3, Peijun SHI1,2,3, Shao SUN1,3, Man LI1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology of Beijing Normal University, China; 2Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China; 3Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management of Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China
Affordable housing for all in india- Issues and OptionsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Occupying largest space and having largest count in human settlements, housing, despite being critical for human living, quality of life and occupying higher rating in all government policies and programs, has remained elusive for majority of the people belonging to lower end of economic/social pyramid. Housing has emerged as the most complex human problem, ever evolving, ever devolving, never static, never finite and never nearing solution. Increasing human numbers, rapid mass migration/ movement of the people due to shifting of residence in search of better economic opportunities within/across nations have emerged as the major cause of the problem. getting more vexed. Having different connotations and meaning for different communities across the globe , Housing has defied all solutions to make housing for all a distinct reality. As major consumer of energy, resources, land, materials, money, labour and time , housing has assumed complex dimensions in different nations/states /communities. Housing also is known to have impact on environment, ecology and global sustainability. Housing does not remain confined to four walls ; it needs a large network of amenities and services to support it. It has high degree of linkages with the human habitat. Paper looks at the housing in the Indian context, tries to identify different issues and roadblocks which are hindering the growth and development of affordable housing and makes an attempt to define agenda for increasing housing numbers in the affordable housing for the EWS/LIG segment of population.
HOW TO SAVE THE HUMANITY OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND WARS DEVASTAT...Fernando Alcoforado
This article whose theme is “How to save humanity of social, economic, environmental and wars devastation in the 21st century” aims to propose the adoption of strategies capable of facing three devastating crises that threaten the future of humanity in the middle of the XXI century. The first crisis is related to the economic and social damage produced by capitalism that will culminate in its predictable end in the middle of the 21st century, the second crisis concerns the worsening of the environmental damage produced by capitalism in the 21st century with the depletion of natural resources, the emergence of new pandemics and catastrophic global climate change, and the third crisis may result from the worsening of conflicts in international relations produced by capitalism that may lead the world to face the multiplicity of localized wars and even a new world war in the 21st century. This article presents the necessary strategies to save humanity from social, economic, environmental devastation and wars in the 21st century, supported by in-depth research on the development of capitalism and its future, on the degradation of the environment and its harmful consequences, as well as about the wars that broke out in the history of mankind and may break out in the future.
Population : The word population has been derived from the Latin word “populatio” which means people.
The group of individual species which occupy a definite geographic area is defined as population.
Population Growth : The change in population per unit area at particular time is called population Growth.
This is my personal essay whilst completing a Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations at the University of the West-Indies. I WILL REALLY APPRECIATE CONSTRUCTIVE DISCOURSE ON THIS TOPIC AS TO ME IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE RELEVANT IN TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL LANDSCAPE.
Capitalist delusion and climate drift 1GRAZIA TANTA
Around the mid-nineteenth century Marx said that philosophers had hitherto endeavoured to understand the world; and that it was time to transform it. Seventeen decades later, this idea screams in our ears.
Put in another way: there is no solution to environmental problems within the capitalist model
1 – Introduction
2 – Environmental management by capitalists and their employees
3 – Climate change - causes and effects
a) Ineluctable absence of human interference cases
b) Historical and current impacts of capitalist development
c) Environmental management as done by multinationals and their employees
Disaster has both negative and positive realm in terms of vulnerability and development. This scenario is described in this presentation in regard to the Rohingya Influx and Crisis in Bangladesh.
Life-support: The Political Ecology of Urban Air (Presentation)Stephen Graham
Humans, increasingly, manufacturer their own air. In and around the three-dimensional aerial environments within and above urban regions, this manufacture of air reaches particular levels of intensity. For a species which expires without air in two or three minutes, this anthropogenic manufacture of air is of incalculable importance. Curiously, however, urban air remains remarkably neglected within the political-ecological literatures. Accordingly, this paper suggests a range of key themes which a political ecology of urban air needs to address. These address, in turn, the links between global warming, urban heart-island effects and killer urban heat-waves; urban pollution crises; the paradoxes of urban pollution; horizontal movements of polluted air; the vertical politics of urban air; the construction of vertical condominiums structures for elites; the vicious circles that characterised air-conditioned urbanism; heat-related deaths of workers building air-conditioned structures in increasingly hot climates; and, finally, the growth of large-scale air-conditioned environments.
Population growth is the change in a population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals of any species in a population using "per unit time" for measurement.
Over population is defined in human context as the state where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of the earth.
New democratic movements for global regeneration_driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity and bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation and usher in a new era of human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
New democratic movements for global regeneration driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity, bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation, human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
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This article whose theme is “How to save humanity of social, economic, environmental and wars devastation in the 21st century” aims to propose the adoption of strategies capable of facing three devastating crises that threaten the future of humanity in the middle of the XXI century. The first crisis is related to the economic and social damage produced by capitalism that will culminate in its predictable end in the middle of the 21st century, the second crisis concerns the worsening of the environmental damage produced by capitalism in the 21st century with the depletion of natural resources, the emergence of new pandemics and catastrophic global climate change, and the third crisis may result from the worsening of conflicts in international relations produced by capitalism that may lead the world to face the multiplicity of localized wars and even a new world war in the 21st century. This article presents the necessary strategies to save humanity from social, economic, environmental devastation and wars in the 21st century, supported by in-depth research on the development of capitalism and its future, on the degradation of the environment and its harmful consequences, as well as about the wars that broke out in the history of mankind and may break out in the future.
Population : The word population has been derived from the Latin word “populatio” which means people.
The group of individual species which occupy a definite geographic area is defined as population.
Population Growth : The change in population per unit area at particular time is called population Growth.
This is my personal essay whilst completing a Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations at the University of the West-Indies. I WILL REALLY APPRECIATE CONSTRUCTIVE DISCOURSE ON THIS TOPIC AS TO ME IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE RELEVANT IN TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL LANDSCAPE.
Capitalist delusion and climate drift 1GRAZIA TANTA
Around the mid-nineteenth century Marx said that philosophers had hitherto endeavoured to understand the world; and that it was time to transform it. Seventeen decades later, this idea screams in our ears.
Put in another way: there is no solution to environmental problems within the capitalist model
1 – Introduction
2 – Environmental management by capitalists and their employees
3 – Climate change - causes and effects
a) Ineluctable absence of human interference cases
b) Historical and current impacts of capitalist development
c) Environmental management as done by multinationals and their employees
Disaster has both negative and positive realm in terms of vulnerability and development. This scenario is described in this presentation in regard to the Rohingya Influx and Crisis in Bangladesh.
Life-support: The Political Ecology of Urban Air (Presentation)Stephen Graham
Humans, increasingly, manufacturer their own air. In and around the three-dimensional aerial environments within and above urban regions, this manufacture of air reaches particular levels of intensity. For a species which expires without air in two or three minutes, this anthropogenic manufacture of air is of incalculable importance. Curiously, however, urban air remains remarkably neglected within the political-ecological literatures. Accordingly, this paper suggests a range of key themes which a political ecology of urban air needs to address. These address, in turn, the links between global warming, urban heart-island effects and killer urban heat-waves; urban pollution crises; the paradoxes of urban pollution; horizontal movements of polluted air; the vertical politics of urban air; the construction of vertical condominiums structures for elites; the vicious circles that characterised air-conditioned urbanism; heat-related deaths of workers building air-conditioned structures in increasingly hot climates; and, finally, the growth of large-scale air-conditioned environments.
Population growth is the change in a population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals of any species in a population using "per unit time" for measurement.
Over population is defined in human context as the state where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of the earth.
New democratic movements for global regeneration_driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity and bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation and usher in a new era of human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
New democratic movements for global regeneration driessen 2019TravisDriessen1
Our global species is confronted with the converging crisis of climate change, unsustainable levels of inequality, mass extinction, and growing water and natural resource scarcity that are threatening the existential crisis of collapse. This fallout has already led to massive displacement and refugee crisis across Latin America and the African continent. New democratic social movements are recombining and ushering in new opportunities for a revolution of regenerative settlements to be built out across the globe. Doing so, can create new opportunities to restore biodiversity, bring the atmosphere to safe operating levels, lift billions into unprecedented human prosperity, and transform global governance to promote a new era cooperation, human discovery and peaceful co-existence.
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Global Societies
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Real World JusticeAuthor(s) Thomas PoggeReviewed work(s).docxcatheryncouper
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THOMAS POGGE
REAL WORLD JUSTICE
(Received 14 May 2004; accepted in revised form 3 June 2004)
ABSTRACT. Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of
human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty with all its attendant
evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and
effective enslavement. We citizens of the rich countries are conditioned to think of
this problem as an occasion for assistance. Thanks in part to the rationalizations
dispensed by our economists, most of us do not realize how deeply we are implicated,
through the new global economic order our states have imposed, in this ongoing
catastrophe. My sketch of how we are so implicated follows the argument of my
book, World Poverty and Human Rights, but takes the form of a response to the
book's critics.
KEY WORDS: causal explanation, development economics, global resources
dividend, harm, human rights, inequality, justice, negative duties, world poverty,
WTO
Can normative theories about global justice benefit from empirical
theories? This is a rhetorical question
- no one seriously argues that
we should think about global justice in ignorance of the facts. And
the question is also a bit tendentious, prodding us philosophers
(heads in the clouds or buried in sand) to pay more attention to the
real world as presented, most relevantly, by development econo
mists.
I agree that many philosophers working on global justice know
too little about the real world, but I also believe that we should
absorb the theories delivered by economists with a great deal of
caution. A prominent concept in economics is that of homo eco
nomicus, an individual who, single-mindedly and rationally, seeks
optimally to satisfy his preferences. Such imaginary creatures are
not good approximations of persons in the real world. But, as
var ...
Transnational organized crime(TOC) and the relationship to.docxturveycharlyn
Transnational organized crime
(TOC) and the relationship to
good governance in the Caribbean
Transnational organized crime
democracy (TOCD)
Miguel Goede
University of The Netherlands Antilles, Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss transnational organized crime (TOC) and the
relationship to good governance in the Caribbean.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper is exploratory. It follows a path of inductive
reasoning, from observation of the eight global cases to a broader general analysis and the development
of a theoretical framework or ideal type.
Findings – The influence of TOC on governance in the Caribbean is worrying. Normative theories of
democracy, public administration and governance no longer apply. Economic growth diminishes,
unemployment rises, crime rises.
Originality/value – The paper contributes to the understanding of the impact of TOC on good
governance especially on Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean.
Keywords Caribbean, Good governance, Small Island Developing States, Transnational organized crime
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
This article is about transnational organized crime (TOC) in the Caribbean. It focuses
on the island of Curaçao. Geographically, Curaçao is in a unique position, less than
100 km from the Venezuelan coast and it is at the crossroads of routes from
South America and Europe and the USA. Historically and culturally the island has
strong links with Europe, which seems to make it an attractive route to Europe for TOC.
Politically, Curaçao is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) with a tradition of
populism and relatively weak social institutions. And economically, Curaçao commands
few resources compared with those available to TOC. All of these characteristics, which
Curaçao shares with many other SIDS in the Caribbean, make the region vulnerable
to the influence of TOC. This article examines this complex network of influences to
show the interaction of TOC and political populism to make SIDS vulnerable to being
undermined in a process described as transnational organized crime democracy (TOCD)
or mafiacracy.
The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at
www.emeraldinsight.com/1446-8956.htm
The author wants to thank for their contribution to this article: Prof. L. Huberts professor of
public administration at VU University of Amsterdam, Prof. R. in ‘t Veld of the University of
Tilburg in The Netherlands for their comments and Prof. D. Turner of the University
of Glamorgan in the UK.
International Journal of Development
Issues
Vol. 12 No. 3, 2013
pp. 253-270
q Emerald Group Publishing Limited
1446-8956
DOI 10.1108/IJDI-01-2013-0008
Transnational
organized crime
253
TOCD or mafiacracy
TOC is a global phenomenon. It is not an easy task to define TOC (Gilligan, 2007).
There is a large number of definitions[1]. This article adopts the UN definition:
The term organized crime ...
Globalization and the Spread of Infectious DiseasesGlobalizatio.docxwhittemorelucilla
Globalization and the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Globalization is a topic that has been around for centuries and is present phenomenon, but what is it exactly? Globalization is defined as a process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments of multiple different nations across the world (“What is Globalization?,” 2016). It is a process that has existed as long as international trade and will continue to exist as long as nations continue to buy and sell to one another. Globalization is a process that impacts people and communities all around the world that are participate in this kind of international relation. It covers a wide spectrum of forces such as, the environment, technology, different demographics, the economy, as well as multiple others. Globalization elicits a lot of changes within each of these forces, changes that have very wide spread effects on humans and on the communities that they inhabit. This topic is however very controversial and many arguments have been made in favor as well as against this process. “Proponents of globalization argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living, while opponents of globalization claim that the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people.” (“What is Globalization?,” 2016). Both sides of the argument hold very strong values and opinions that are influenced by factors such as health.
The effects of Globalization on overall health, is a major concern for all nations. A topic that has been closely associated with Globalization is the greater spread of infectious diseases. Infectious diseases are those that are caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi and can be spread from one person to another either directly or indirectly (WHO, 2016). Direct contact is when an infectious disease is contracted by direct contact from one person to another person, an animal to a person, or from a mother to her unborn child. Indirect contact is when an infectious disease is contracted by coming in contact with an item that has been contaminated with the germs of the disease. Insect bites as well as food contamination are also common ways that infectious diseases are transferred. Mosquitos are well known for passing malaria onto humans through a bite and E. coli is a common disease that is transferred through the consumption of undercooked food.
http://ps4h.org/communicable_diseases.html
Understanding infectious diseases is a key component to understanding the relationship between them and Globalization. In the world today, approximately half of all deaths that are caused by infectious diseases can be traced back to three diseases: tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS (Networks, 2000). Tuberculosis, commonly referred to as TB, is a contagious disease that is caused by b ...
It is time for humanity to provide the urgently as possible tools needed to take control of their destiny and put in place a democratic governance of the world. This is the only means of survival of the human species and to halt the decay of humanity. Because there is no other means capable of building a world in which every woman, every man of today and tomorrow have the same rights and the same duties, and in which the interests of the planet and of all nations, of all forms of life and future generations would be finally taken into account, in which all the sources of growth would be used for environmentally and socially sustainable way.
Making Cities Safe and Resilient to disaster JIT KUMAR GUPTA
In the face of ongoing scenario of; globalization, liberalization of economies; rapid population growth; ever expanding urban footprints; rapid industrialization; global warming, rising temperature, climate change; depleting ozone layers and increasing carbon footprints, human settlements are fast becoming vulnerable and victim to natural and manmade disasters. Cities are now facing increasing threat posed by cyclones, storms, heavy precipitation, earthquakes, landslides, floods, and avalanches., putting them in perpetual danger of damage and destruction. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, evolved by UNO, defined targets to promote safety, including; understanding disaster risk; strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster ; investing in disaster reduction for resilience and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to "Build Back Better" in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. For making cities safe against natural and manmade risks, disasters management and mitigation should be made integral part of urban planning and development process besides carrying out analysis of the land-use planning; zoning, environment , ecology, investment; risk and vulnerability mapping; land suitability analysis defining worst-case scenarios for emergency preparedness; promoting planned development; achieving sustainability and safety; making cities spongy and resilient; empowering and involving communities , should remain the underlying and governing principles to make cities safe. Working holistically with and supporting nature; preserving, protecting and promoting flora, fauna and bio-diversity; making optimum use of Pachbhutas (Prithvi, Agni, Vayu, Jal, Akaash), and minimizing conflict between development and nature, will remain most critical for planning, designing and construction of safe and secure built environment. Nature based solutions offer the best options for promoting sustainability and safety to human settlements against natural and manmade disasters.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Problems of the modern world by Team4
1. In this presentation demographic problems,
migrations of the population, an environmental
pollution, a corruption, a terrorism and breaking
women and children’s rights will be discussed.
2. Amongst numerous global problems the great concern is the problem of dynamic increase of the world
population. Too fast process of a proliferation of world’s residents creates the necessity of
immediate dealing with many other problems – providing the accommodation, work places and
the food. Demographic problems also lead to significant migrations of people to the developed
countries.
In the 17th century the number of world’s population was circa 500 milion people. Since then we are
observing constant and more violent increase in the pace of the growth of the number of
population. Two hundred years later the world population was twice that much. The sudden
demographic boom in the world was caused by the improvement in the sanitation of life conditions
which fact contributed to lower mortality.
Next doubling of the number of the world population lasted for one hundred years. At present, the
increase of the number of residents of the world by billion lasts only 11 years. There is a concern
about demographic bomb because the 90% of the population growth will fall on developing
countries. The highest pace of the growth is in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The problem of the
developed countries is just the opposite – increased aging processes which will also cause the need
to adapt the social policies in these countries (increasing the number of elderly people care
centresm, increased expenses on pensions, health care, and solving the problem of the shortage of
manpower).
The dynamic population growth also causes creating gigantic municipal centres called megalopolis.
What is characteristic for megalopolis is the existence of the extensive poverty-stricken town
districts (called „favelas”) which are characterized by the huge population density, the bad
sanitation and high level of crime.
3. Migration processes are often connected with economic problems of the states. Migrations, seen as the change of place of
residence, not necessarily have to be a problem themselves. However, some part of the migrating people are made by
desire to flee the country because of difficult economic and social conditions, armed conflicts, persecution, breaking human
rights, or natural disasters. People who were forced to migrate because of the listed reasons above are called the refugees.
The situation of refugees is connected with very difficult living conditions (problem of homeless people, lack of the health
and legal care, hunger). For this reason General Gathering of the UN appointed the high commissar of United Nations for
Refugees in 1950s whose task is to help refugees, political refugees without granted asylum and stateless persons. UNHCR
is also taking care of stateless persons who are not the citizens of any country (because they lost their citizenship, or it was
taken from them). UNHCR estimates that there are 6,5 million stateless persons in the world now.
Other than the refugee status is the emigration, in the case of which the decision about the long-lasting leaving the country is of
voluntary character. According to data gathered by the Lithuanian Department of the Statistics 83157 persons emigrated
from Lithuania in 2010. It is estimated that since the regaining independence by Lithuania in 1991 this country has lost 0.6
milion of its citizens (circa 16.2 % of the whole population of this country). The most of Lithuanian emigrants left to the
Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Germany and the USA.
4. Polluting the environment is one of the most serious problems of the modern world, requiring the
cooperation of the international communities.
The main phenomena connected with this topic are:
• the greenhouse effect,
• air pollution,
• polluting waters,
• degradation of the soil.
The greenhouse effect is the phenomenon connected with the increase of the world’s average
temperature, caused by high emission of carbon, sulphur and nitrogen products into the
atmosphere as a result of the development of the industry and the motorization. The increase of
the world’s average temperature is regarded as the cause of melting of glaciers and climatic
changes, hence the natural disasters and famine.
Emission of various solid, gas and liquid substances into the atmosphere leads to the increase of the
number of respiratory system diseases among the people. Air pollution is also a cause of acidic rain
- the type of rain that consist of sulphuric acid. Acid rains are the cause of weakening babies’ lungs,
souring rivers and lakes, destruction of the flora and the fauna, degradation of the soil and
destruction of buildings.
Contaminating the water with various organic and inorganic substances excessively make this water
impossible to use for drinking and economic reasons.
5. The sources of many current and future threats to the world are expected to
be present in the effects of uncontrolable science and technology
progress. As the example of this phenomenon, the development of
genetics is listed here which led to creating the technique of cloning live
organisms.
The natural outcome of the progress in cloning can be the creation of the
human clone, but on the other hand this notion creates the problem of
unpredictable effects of such action. For the believers such behaviour is
unethical, consisting in entering the sphere reserved for the divine beings
only.
Providing the proper control over the development of the nuclear technology
is the other challenge resulting from the science and technology progress.
The progress of the nuclear researches led not only to the creation of the
sources of cheap nuclear energy, but also to to the creation of the nuclear
bomb and the threats associated with nuclear accidents like the disaster
of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in 1986.
6. A problem of many states is a significant corruption. We describe a corruption proposing, giving,
demanding or accepting the undue property benefit by any person (e.g. of money), or personal
(e.g. public post) for him/herself or for the other person, or accepting a proposal or the promise of
such benefits in exchange for action or the failure to act in carrying out the public function. The
corruption is developing when state institutions have a wide range of competences, but law and
administrative procedures are too complicated, unclear and long-lasting for the ordinary citizen.
The corruption is spreading in the countries in which there is a public consent to practice this type
of actions, public clerks are underpaid, and public institutions are weak and aren't able to
supervise the other public offices. The development of the corruption also leads to the
development of the organised groups of criminal character connected with people from different
social positions, policemen and the businesses benefiting from crime (unlike terrorist groups, the
aims of organised groups of criminal character are not the political ones, but the economic are).
In some countries processes of the corruption and organised crime are so complex that it is hard to
distinguish between the country and the organized crime actions. Because the mafia controls all
more important sectors of the economy, the government isn't able to fulfil its basic tasks (e.g.
ensuring security of citizens). Organized crime, taking the advantage of the weakness of the
government, takes over its functions. Criminal groups are stronger and more effective when the
government is being less effective. For this reason, many criminal groups developed in the
countries of the former communist block when they were experiencing the period the political and
economic transformation.
7. The list of 25 countries with the highest corruption level according to Corruption Perceptions Index from 2010, created by the Transparency International:
1. Somalia
2. Myanmar (Burma)
3 Afghanistan
4. Iraq
5. Uzbekistan
6. Turkmenistan
7. Sudan
8. Chad
9. Burundi
10. Equatorial Guinea
11. Angola
12. Venezuela
13. Kyrgystan
14. Guinea
15. Democratic Republic of Congo
16. Tajikistan
17. Russia
18. Papua New Guinea
19. Laos
20. Kenya
21. Guinea Bissau
22. Congo
23. Comoros
24. Republic of Centre Africa
25. Cambodia
8. An urgent problem of today world is the phenomenon of the terrorism.
Situations in which the physical assault ocurred, and was used by the
individual or by the group of people in order to achieve some political
aims, can be called the acts of terror. In practice, however, it is hard to say
if it was the act of terror, or national independence movement because
they both are of violent character, but in the eyes of perpetrators they are
justified actions which are to lead to liberation of the nation.
The terrorist attacks as the instrument of the political fight increased in the
early-70’s in the 20th century, along with the development of the national
independence movements of ETA and IRA, and the so-called pinkos and
Islamic Terrorism. However, many people tend to think that true terrorism
has begun since 11th Semptember, 2001 when the twin World Trade
Center towers were attacked.
The most well-known terrorist organizations of the 20th century are IRA, ETA,
Hamas and the al-Qaeda.
At present, there are 48 terrorist formations known to the American
Department of the Defence that are threatening the US.
9. Breaking human rights is a global problem requiring the close cooperation of the
countries and citizens of the world. We will indicate only main causes and types of
breaking women and children’s rights in this place.
Cultural, economic and social causes are among main reasons of breaking women and
children rights. One should remember that societies differ in customary norms,
and in one culture such practices can be recognized as the infringement of human
rights, whereas in other cultures do not cross the social standards and limitations
(e.g. the attitude to women or types of administered penalties).
Political issues are often a reason of breaking human rights - some countries of the
world (most often totalitarian and authoritarian ones) limit personal and political
laws of their citizens (e.g. the personal inviolability, the right to the expression and
forming unions, right to the just and impartial court, freedom of speech) being
afraid of losing the power. Armed conflicts during which the human rights are also
broken, are also treated as the political reasons. Vast economic
underdevelopment can also be a reason for not respecting human rights. The
another reason for breaking human rights are also rooted in human nature
chauvinist, racist or xenophobic attitudes, causing the discrimination other people
because of their skin colour, religious belief, or origin.
10. Lithuania, as the first Baltic country, admitted that this
problem is present within it boundries. Every single
year 120 thousand people are an object of the trade in
Europe, among which about 3 thousand are women
that come from the Baltic countries. 1000-1200 of
these women are citizens of Lithuania. Non-
governmental organizations of Lithuania started the
fight with this problem in 2006. The increasing
unemployment, social problems, small income and the
lack of the education – these facts increase the
number of potential victims. The most common victims
are the girls between 17-23 years of age, and are often
from disfunctional families, or from orphanages.
11. What problems in everyday life have persons, who
were made to leave their own country, got?
What are the social effects of the destruction of the
environment in your opinion? What can you do to
counteract the destruction of the environment?
Can the scientific progress have the negative
influence on the society? What can it be?
What are the social effects of the corruption?