Memo

TO: The Executives of Various International Organizations

FROM: An Student

DATE: April 21, 2022

SUBJECT: An Report of World Hunger, Population Explosion and Lack of Resources

Nowadays, the global issues have received more and more attention, because they will become more and more serious if they are not dealt with. Among the issues, the three issues, namely world hunger, population explosion and lack of resources are of great importance and can be regarded as the fundamental issues to the global issues.

World Hunger

With the coronavirus’ spreading, the famine issue has still been important in the world, which needs to be eliminated and the effort from all people and various organizations all around the world.

The Explosion of Population

At present, the population of the world is still increasing at a rapid speed, which can cause a lot of related problems in food safety, environmental protection and allocation of the resources. The issue should be paid great attention, which needs the organizations of all countries to work together.

Lack of Resources

When the destruction of resources accumulates to a certain extent, serious pollution will occur, such as shortage of resources, high price of resources and sharp contradiction between supply and demand, and even imbalance of the ecosystem. Some rare resources will become extinct, posing a threat to human society. The lack of resources can lead to the issues in various aspects of human life, including the production and daily life. To solve it, the hard work together from various organizations should be necessary.

Attachments: An Report of World Hunger, Population Explosion and Lack of Resources

An Report of World Hunger, Population Explosion and Lack of Resources

Introduction

As the economic globalization develop in-depth, countries are increasingly integrated. All countries are constantly deepening cooperation in political, economic, social and cultural aspects. The world has gradually become a whole, and gradually formed a situation of prosperity and loss. However, at the same time, global problems are increasing such as famine, the relationships among various countries, ecological imbalances, environmental pollution, population explosions, resource shortages, regional terrorism, transnational crime and belief crisis, etc. In order to effectively responde to the challenges from global issues, it is necessary to deeply know about and get the major issues and trends for the international society. Therefore, this paper deeply discusses the problems of world hunger, population explosion and resource shortage, and puts forward solutions.

World Hunger

The world hunger has close relationship with the global economy(Griffin 1). There are about 795 million people suffering from chronic malnutrition in the world, according to The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)(Officer). This means that over 7 billion people are often hungry, who compose about one ninth of the earth’s population. In developing countries, more and more malnourished people in the world live there to make a living. (Peron 37). Unluckily, Asia is also a concentration area with two thirds of the chronically malnourished people living there (Asia 15). The areas in the Sub Saharan Africa has been suffering from the hunger (Bain et al. 5), where at least a quarter of the population is keeping malnourished. The world hunger has triggered heated discussion in the international society. Although the international society has promised to eliminate the hunger and poverty before, it has not achieved at present (Uvin 151). Besides, the coronavirus is still spreading, which intensifies the hunger of the world. The COVID-19 has caused people to be isolated in home so that there are less people to plant(McAlpin 351).“The United Nations is increasingly targeting its food aid to people suffering from droughts, which last year spread to more than 20 countries and affected 100 million people.”, according to the article Drought compounding world hunger worldwide With AP Graphic. Surprisingly, the starving children are not only from underdeveloped countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but also from food banks in developed countries in Europe and the United States. The United Nations Children’s Fund announced for the first time in 70 years that it would provide food for hungry children in Britain to ease the supply shortage of food banks (Jolly 4). In the United States, although the government has continued to increase investment in food banks since the outbreak of the epidemic, the food banks in the United States are almost unable to support the tsunami like needs of difficult people (Riches 8). So in this case, it is worth thinking about that the problem of global hunger can be solved only with the aid of the United Nations or some food banks? Obviously not. The world hunger is related to the food safety, as a matter of fact (Henson 589). The food safety is the foundation of social safety for one country, even the whole world. World hunger is a combination of political, economic, military and other international issues. In recent days, most food production and distribution in Ukraine have come to a standstill, resulting in shortages in some parts of the country, especially in the areas most seriously affected by the Russian invasion (Liadze etl. 32). In terms of political issue, local governments and institutions should take correspo2ding measures, such as formulating relevant laws and regulations and calling for relevant activities, just like the green revolution in Africa. Recently, two breakthroughs have been made in the field of green energy in Africa: one is that Niger announced the investment and construction of its first wind farm and began to scale up the layout of clean energy. The other is that South Africa has realized the grid connection of “Photovoltaic plus Energy Storage” micro grid and large grid for the first time, and the development of green industry has reached a new level (Death 10). Without doubt, it also belongs to the development of economy. Frequent global wars and conflicts are also one of the important causes of food crisis; In particular, some local extremist forces with sinister intentions take the despicable means of monopolizing and controlling food supply as one side of the disaster (Käferstein &Mohammed 347). Making good use of diplomacy can more effectively avoid war. Each country will always adhere to multilateralism, uphold peace and justice and the international community, adhere to peaceful diplomacy and make common progress. Only when the world is harmonious and stable can all countries maintain a state of development. Therefore, international partners should spare no efforts to the food crisis and eradicate hunger together.

Population Explosion

Population issues has become an increasingly serious global problem. The main manifestation of the population problem is that the population increases rapidly. The global population is expected to increase from 7.3 billion in 2015 to 8.1 billion in 2023 and 9.6 billion in 2050, according to the data released by the authoritative United Nations agency (Rougoor &Van Marrewijk 220). Serious problems has appeared because of the rapid growth of global population such as ecological destruction, environmental pollution and resource shortage. The problem of resource shortage is the most intuitive and closely related to the lives of ordinary people. The limited resources need to be shared by more people, which must result in the unfairness and lack of resources. Especially in the developing countries, this situation will be more serious. For instance, in Nigeria, the insecurity problem is being blamed on the country’s population expansion, according to health experts (Michael&Odeyemi 103). Besides some resource problems, education, housing and other livelihood issues will be derived from the population explosion. How to solve them? Government can formulate a policy, like “Family Planning” released in China before. Meantime, making good use of the government and the market to vigorously can be of great help to develop the economy. After all, only when the cake is big enough, can it be shared as fairly as possible. People also should learn to improve their life by themselves. For example, they can make good use of local high-quality resources or some policy to start a business. In addition, it is necessary for the world to help them, such as material assistance, technical support and other assistance. As is known to everyone, population explosion can not be formed overnight. Therefore, it needs a gradual process to return to the normal state under the proper guidance of all sides.

Lack of Resources

The issue of global resources has been the main concern of the present society. The natural resource can be depleted, because some of them are non-renewable and limited, such as the fossil, coal and metal resources(Hussain etl.110). The lack of resources can lead to lot of issues about industrial production, transportation and daily life of human beings. One of the main aspects of the issues on resources is that the world’s forests are declining seriously. According to Greenpeace (Eden 595), 80% of primitive forests in the world have been destroyed in the past 100 years. For example, Gothenburg is a green city, thanks to its proximity to forests and parks, as well as its compact layout and abundant public transport, 65% of which uses renewable energy (Moore 40). However, not all cities are as lucky as Gothenburg with the rich natural resources so that they need to seek for solutions to solve the problem of lacking resources. New energy may be the beginning of solving this series of problems, like electric vehicle. Transport accounts for around a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions, and road vehicles for around three-­quarters of that share (Schipper&Fulton 50). If the world is to have any chance of reaching net-zero by 2050, electric vehicles will need to take over, and soon” (Gerst, Martina, &Gao 225). In addition, the strength of the government should not be underestimated, like Gothenburg which released some laws and rules to promote environmental sustainability. All countries should also work together to develop sustainable new energy, so as to deal with the negative impact of climate changes, wars or limited resources.

The global problem is a serious problem that concerns the survival of the human beings in spite of the boundaries of all nations. Whether it is global hunger, population explosion or resource problems, the international community, national governments, civil society institutions and individual citizens need to work together to solve them. At the same time, all countries should also know how to respect nature, protect nature, avoid waste and improve recycling technology. Only in this way can the world become more and more beautiful and the smiles on children’s faces become more and more.

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