Problems of the Planet

There are many problems facing our world. But some of them we can’t fix. If I was the president of Mongolia I would make so many changes. I think we should treat the world like it is our most lovable thing, because there is only one earth in the world and we are living on it.
World hunger is a problem facing our earth. In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty" Every year 15 million children die of hunger For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days! The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving. 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year. The Indian continent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world.
Diseases are affecting our world. There are many disease that are killing people like Black Plague, smallpox, Leishmaniosis, Malaria these 4 diseases are the top most disease that have killed people on our earth. Black Plague outbroke in Europe in 1347, which soon spread throughout Italy. It was like the end of the days for Europe. In four years, this bacterium killed 20 to 30 million Europeans, about one third of the continent's population. Americas escaped of the Black Death because of the isolation. But when discovered, the smallpox struck. In 1518 an outbreak of smallpox in the Haiti island left just 1,000 of the Native Indians. 100 years after the discovery of America by Columbus, 90 % of its native population have died of smallpox. Mexico passed from 30 million to 3 million inhabitants, Peru from 8 million to 1 million. About 1,600, when the first European colonists reached Massachusetts, found it practically uninhabited, as smallpox had killed almost all local Indians. It is believed that along the history, smallpox killed more humans that all the wars of the 20th century together. Since 1914 to 1977 smallpox killed 300 to 500 million people. By 1970, smallpox still killed 2 million people. Leishmaniosis infects 2 million people annually and about 12 million diseased are found worldwide, mostly adult men. It is produced by a protozoa (Leishmania) that spreads through the bite of the sand flies (Phlebotomus). The most severe type is "kala azar" ("black fever" in Hindu), which infects 0.5 million people, and incubation lasts some weeks. The parasite induces skin ulcers which extend all over the body and can produce obstructions or nasal hemorrhage.
It causes severe lesions on the legs and a temporary or definitive physical disability. Malaria is found in 500 million people (!) and is caused by a protozoa spread by the female of the Anopheles mosquito. 300 million of these cases are severe. In the east African villages, children are bitten by the Anopheles mosquitoes carrying malaria 50-80 times a month. It triggers fever, shivering, abundant sweating, articulation pains, severe headache, vomit and extreme weakness, so that the diseased cannot even cry. Annually, 1.5 million people die of malaria (one million in Africa South of Sahara), a child every 30 seconds. About 120 million people died of malaria since 1914, and the disease is endemic in 101 countries, mainly tropical, in Africa, Asia and America. It spreads during the rainy season, when the mosquitoes breed.
Trash is a big problem in the world we have so many trash we throw away. Is it your turn to take out the trash? Chances are, your trash barrel is a lot lighter now that your family is recycling. Several years ago, people in Wisconsin threw out everything from toothpaste tubes to old TV sets, food scraps to bags, computer games to oil filters. What a waste! Today we're diverting (keeping out of landfills by recycling and composting at home) 40 percent of all that "junk" we use to throw away, saving valuable landfill space and conserving natural resources.The Recycling Law, passed in 1990, got every community in Wisconsin started on recycling, and families, just like yours, joined in. Now, just about everyone recycles - 94 percent of the households in the state. Most people recycle because it's good for the environment, and they strongly support the Recycling Law.