What are the major global issues facing mankind at present

AIDS is an even more serious topic, and it makes people shudder at the mention of it. The scale of the AIDS epidemic, the number of people suffering from the disease, and the social and economic losses caused by human life have exceeded that of any other infectious disease in history. No country or region in the world is immune to AIDS. Worse still, the global AIDS epidemic is rapidly gaining momentum, especially in Southern Africa, Latin America and Asia. Low infection rates in the general population often mask the fact that HIV is spreading rapidly among high-risk groups.

Here's a statistic from the Internet: In less than 30 years, AIDS has killed 31 million people. In 2003 alone, more than 3 million people died of AIDS, and some 5 million more became infected with HIV. Of the world's total population at the end of 2003, an estimated 40 million people were living with HIV or AIDS, of whom about 3 million were children. From this set of figures, it can be seen that the prevalence and spread of AIDS poses a serious threat to the survival and development of mankind. At present, the prevention and treatment of AIDS has become a matter of universal concern to all countries in the world. In order to safeguard the human rights of the increasing number of people infected with AIDS, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) put forward the Programme for the Prevention and Control of AIDS at the Global Summit in January 1988, and designated 1 December of each year as World AIDS Day to assist countries in the world in developing strategies for preventing and controlling the AIDS epidemic, and at the same time, to set up a theme each year for publicity. The theme of AIDS Day from 2005 to 2007 was "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise". The AIDS pandemic has a serious impact on people's health and the loss of labor force, thus affecting the development of the whole society and the economy; the AIDS pandemic has led to a drastic increase in medical costs and a huge drain on health resources; the AIDS pandemic has led to an increase in the number of people living in poverty and a widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, resulting in the creation of a large number of orphans and an increase in the burden on the society; and the AIDS pandemic has led to a drastic reduction in life expectancy. In this way, AIDS is not only a medical problem, but also a social problem. Our country's approach to the control of AIDS is to focus on prevention, combine prevention and treatment, and treat both the symptoms and the root causes of the disease. A very important means of controlling the spread of AIDS is to carry out positive health education, publicize hygiene and arm the mind with scientific knowledge. At the same time, it is necessary to create a social environment conducive to the control of AIDS, to promote social care for AIDS patients, to treat them equally, to respect their rights, and to reduce the risk of their infecting others.

The problem of poverty

Thinking about it, the problem of poverty seems to be a persistent problem that is very much out of harmony with the development of the society, and in the 21st century, it is still a social phenomenon that will be accompanied by modern times, and it has been listed by the United Nations as the primary global problem of social development.

We look at the global scale, human socio-economic development has indeed brought great wealth, human living standards than before, there are statistics that the world's wealth has increased by a factor of seven. At the same time, due to uneven development and irrational distribution, the disparity between the rich and the poor is widening globally, especially between the developing and the developed countries, and instead of narrowing, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Of course, the problem of polarization between the rich and the poor exists objectively to varying degrees in any country, and developed countries are no exception. Take the richest and most economically developed country, the United States, as an example. Although the United States has the most advanced technology in the world and enjoys a very high standard of living, the polarization between the rich and the poor is the most typical of the developed countries in the West, and it has already become a persistent social problem plaguing the United States. The eradication of poverty has always been an ambitious goal and ideal for mankind to realize social justice, equality and righteousness, and in order to realize this goal and ideal, mankind has declared war on poverty many times. However, until the 21st century, despite the annual growth of the world economy and the accumulation of social wealth, poverty is spreading globally, and the eradication of poverty has become the top priority of today's international social development issues.

We are pleased that the International Development Strategy for the Fourth Decade formulated by the United Nations in 1990 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s adopted by the Conference of the Least Developed Countries held in Paris in the same year have made the sustained economic development of the developing countries and the eradication of poverty the primary objectives of the international development strategy and the priority areas of international cooperation. progress.

Since the reform and opening up, China has on the one hand allowed and encouraged some regions and some people to get rich first, and on the other hand carried out large-scale poverty alleviation work, but due to historical and practical problems, the problem of poverty is still quite serious, and remains an urgent problem to be solved.

In order to further draw the attention of the international community to the problem of poverty, to publicize and promote the work of poverty eradication worldwide, and to mobilize countries to take concrete actions to alleviate poverty, the 47th session of the United Nations General Assembly designated 17 October of each year as the World Day for the Eradication of Poverty. UNCTAD also held a full discussion on a series of issues such as the opportunities and challenges facing the world's countries, especially developing countries, in the context of the mega-trend of economic globalization, development strategies for the new century, the reform of the multilateral trading system, trade and investment, narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, South-South cooperation, and the strengthening of UNCTAD's role.

III. Environmental Issues

It was pointed out that the first two decades of the 21st century were a period of optimal opportunity for development, and that advances in science and technology were gradually bringing us new prosperity and wealth. However, technology is a double-edged sword, if there is a lack of rational guidance and scientific control, it will harm our own human beings. At present, mankind is facing environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, we rely on the survival and development of the dependence is under serious threat, which has become the global face of the **** the same crisis.

First is environmental pollution. In order to pursue too much economic value, human beings are directly or indirectly to the environment to discharge more than its own purification capacity of the material or energy, so that the quality of our environment in the reduction of our survival and development, ecosystems and property adversely affected. With the improvement of science and technology, environmental pollution is intensifying, especially in developing countries, where water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, radioactive pollution and so on are jeopardizing human health and destroying the ecological environment. Combating environmental pollution is increasingly becoming one of the ****same issues for all countries in the world. Secondly, there is over-utilization of resources.On July 9, 2002, the World Conservation Fund (WCF) released a report entitled "The Living Earth", which predicts that, because the current utilization of natural resources by mankind has exceeded its capacity for renewal by up to 20%, the overall standard of living of mankind will decline after 2030 if governments do not intervene any more. The report points out that due to human over-consumption, the number of living species on earth has decreased by 35% over the past 30 years, with freshwater organisms decreasing by 54%; marine species by 35%; and tree species by 15%. Evidently, for the sake of the survival of future generations, it is imperative to protect resources. The third is climate change. The "greenhouse effect", global warming and the melting of glaciers have become a problem for all mankind to think about. Relevant data show that in the past half century, carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased almost twice as fast as the rate of population growth, raising the concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, by 30% compared with the previous industrial period. The growing ozone hole, the melting of glaciers, the rising global sea level and other phenomena show that the reality of global warming is constantly ringing alarm bells for people all over the world. Fourth is the energy crisis. Since oil, coal and other traditional fossil energy sources currently used in large quantities are non-renewable resources, and human demand for these energy sources is quite high, and at the same time, the new energy production and supply system has failed to be established, a series of energy crisis problems have been created in the areas of transportation, finance, industry and commerce. It is widely estimated by national economists and scientists that by the middle of this century, around 2050, oil resources will be exhausted. What is more, there is a possibility that mankind may start a war as a result of the scramble for energy. The fifth is ecological damage. The emergence of climate change, environmental pollution, over-harvesting and other phenomena have seriously damaged the original ecological balance of the earth, making the species on the earth less and less, and the number of living creatures is also declining sharply. Scientists have found that the number of many species has been halved through inspection. Data provided by the Environmental Protection Monitoring Center in Cambridge, England, show that the number of black rhinoceros has been reduced from 65,000 in 1970 to 3,100. African elephants have dropped from 1.2 million in 1980 to 500,000, while the tiger population has declined by 95 percent over the past 100 years.

The global environmental problems have alarmed us, so please take action to protect the environment on which we depend! Emancipation and development of productive forces, improve the comprehensive national strength, promote diversified economic development, and realize the *** with the rich, should be a good medicine and a good prescription for the elimination of poverty, may we *** with the struggle for this.

Four, the population problem

The pendulum of the years never stops when the 21st century, when the needle points to our survival and life, we will be surprised to find that the population problem has quietly become a major global problem.

Walking along the streets, crowded in the bus, shopping in the supermarket, everywhere you can see the crowded people, and even let people walk hard, breathing difficulties. The problems related to schooling, employment, housing and other issues have also arisen, seriously hampering the improvement of people's quality of life and standards. The population problem is a grave topic which I hardly dare to touch upon. However, the development of population itself, population and society, population and economy, population resources, population and the natural environment, and so on, have inadvertently affected our survival and development. The first is the increase in the number of people. Over the past century, the world's population has grown at an unprecedented rate. According to the information provided by the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the United Nations expects the global population to increase to 8 billion in 2025 and 9.3 billion in 2050, and it is expected that the global population will eventually stabilize at around 10.5 or 11 billion. As the population grows and people's standard of living rises, land, water, energy and other natural resources will become even more strained, especially in developing countries, potentially leading to an unprecedented crisis. The second is population ageing. Population ageing has two meanings: first, it refers to the process of the relative increase in the number of older persons, who account for a rising proportion of the total population; and second, it refers to the socio-demographic structure of society showing old age and entering an ageing society. Internationally, the usual view is that when a country or region's elderly population over 60 years of age accounts for 10% of the total population, or the elderly population over 65 years of age accounts for 7% of the total population, it means that the country or region is in an aging society, which is so frightening. since the 1980s, the United Nations has convened the World Conference on Ageing twice, and has included the issue of aging in the important issues of the United Nations General Assembly. It has adopted a series of important resolutions and documents, such as the International Plan of Action on Ageing, the United Nations Principles for Older Persons, the Global Objectives for Addressing Population Ageing from 1992 to 2001, the World Declaration on Ageing, and the International Year of Older Persons 1999, with a view to increasing the attention paid to population ageing and the problems of older persons. The third issue is that of old age. The primary problem facing an ageing society is old age, which is the ****same responsibility of the State, society, the family and the individual, and which requires social services. China is a populous country, some experts say, China has entered the ageing era in advance, therefore, the problem of old age on China's old said, the responsibility and pressure has increased dramatically. China's traditional model of home care and nursing home care for thousands of years has seriously constrained sustainable economic development and hindered the process of modernization. In recent years, the Chinese government has been stepping up its efforts to reform the urban old-age insurance system as well as to popularize the rural old-age insurance system. The fourth is population quality. Population quantity indicates the population size under a certain space, while population quality is the various qualities of the population under a certain population size, which includes ideological quality, cultural quality, physical quality and so on, and is usually referred to as moral character, intelligence and physical fitness. Ideological quality is the state of consciousness that governs people's behavior, cultural quality is people's ability to understand and transform the world, and physical quality is the natural condition and foundation of population quality. Recently, zhejiang provincial satellite TV "citizen action" program broadcast a program "chain boy", the program mother and son are suffering from mental illness. The Hunan Provincial Satellite TV channel also aired a program called "A Dumb Daughter-in-Law", in which one of the couple was disabled and the other was mentally retarded. The main characters in these two programs are living a very poor and difficult life. These two examples show that the number of people with different disabilities is not a small number, it reflects the side of the quality of the population of our society is not optimistic.