Hunger if possible. Reduce ONE issue that often leads to conflict.Resources? Not an issue. You have authority, money, power, or whatever you need. You can eradicate just ONE global problem/issue. What would that be and why this particular one?
I've changed my mind. I'd make religion go away. You get laughed at for believing in goats cause - proof. But it's ok to believe in an omnipotent being without proof? And only your omnipotent being counts.
Shut down Facebook permanently (maybe they can buy Fox News first so I get a bonus).
Re world hunger, there tends to be less of that (barring the effects and impact of natural disasters) in countries where women enjoy some degree of economic autonomy (which often comes back to having had access to education).
Education does usually open doors for women, unless a country has a low minimum age for marriage and also limits female education to the years before a girl is married off. But even in the USA, cultural and religious constraints can reduce an educated woman's autonomy and so reduce her access to not only employment but also to social safety nets if her husband takes exception. The latter is still a problem sometimes in rural areas of the USA, where family farms are struggling and blue collar jobs have evaporated, but the husband refuses to let his wife work outside the home or to apply for food stamps or other social services, even if the family qualifies.
In conservatively governed states, the social service agencies sometimes compound this problem by consciously not making an effort to see that people who do qualify for benefits know of them and know how to apply for them, or they attempt to shame people who do use the available benefits.
A couple of excerpts from Michael Lewis' book The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy:
An Arizona congressman proposed that the card used by people receiving food-stamp benefits be made prison orange, conferring not just nutrition but shame. In 2016, after several counties in North Carolina suffered severe flooding, the state tried to distribute federal disaster-relief food-benefit cards on the day of the presidential election, to give poor people a choice between eating and voting.Concannon (head of Oregon's nutritional assistance program, being interviewed by Lewis] had explained to a Kansas executive who oversaw that state's food-stamp program how he had made it easier for people in Oregon who were going hungry to access their program: “He said, 'Jeez, if we did that we’d have more people coming in the door.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but isn’t that the idea?’"
Education does usually open doors for women, unless a country has a low minimum age for marriage and also limits female education to the years before a girl is married off. But even in the USA, cultural and religious constraints can reduce an educated woman's autonomy and so reduce her access to not only employment but also to social safety nets if her husband takes exception. The latter is still a problem sometimes in rural areas of the USA, where family farms are struggling and blue collar jobs have evaporated, but the husband refuses to let his wife work outside the home or to apply for food stamps or other social services, even if the family qualifies.
In conservatively governed states, the social service agencies sometimes compound this problem by consciously not making an effort to see that people who do qualify for benefits know of them and know how to apply for them, or they attempt to shame people who do use the available benefits.
A couple of excerpts from Michael Lewis' book The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy:
An Arizona congressman proposed that the card used by people receiving food-stamp benefits be made prison orange, conferring not just nutrition but shame. In 2016, after several counties in North Carolina suffered severe flooding, the state tried to distribute federal disaster-relief food-benefit cards on the day of the presidential election, to give poor people a choice between eating and voting.Concannon (head of Oregon's nutritional assistance program, being interviewed by Lewis] had explained to a Kansas executive who oversaw that state's food-stamp program how he had made it easier for people in Oregon who were going hungry to access their program: “He said, 'Jeez, if we did that we’d have more people coming in the door.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but isn’t that the idea?’"
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