Learn about three global issue areas — world hunger, climate change, and gender equality — and what you can do about them.
Ending world hunger.
854 million people in the world are chronically undernourished. Every day, 250,000, including 10,000 children, die from starvation or other hunger-related causes.
Decreasing public and private investments in food, growing world populations, and food price instability means hunger is once again on the rise.
Climate Change
Climate change has already taken an observable toll on the world. The earth’s average temperature has increased by 2.12 degrees Farenheight over the past century, and climate change has already taken an observable toll on the world.
Climate change will hit the most poorest, most vulnerable communities first. It will become the most defining threat to public health, food security, water security in the 21st century.
Gender Equality
The world has made significant progress toward gender quality over the past century. Nonetheless, across the world, women continue to be barred from economic and political participation, denied access to education, and receive inadequate access to health and medicine. Women continue to be subjects of gender-based violence and sex trafficking.
We all have a personal responsibility to do the most good we can.
“Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good you can.” — Peter Singer