I am competing in a speaking competition for my school, and have chosen to write a speech on the topic “The Greatest Danger Facing Our World Today”.
I was just wondering what people thought the greatest danger facing our world was, besides the obvious of terrorism, war, famine, and environmental vandalism etc?
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The only real danger out their is “Global Warming” aka “Global Climate Change”. Everything else is simply a weapon of mass distraction.
Im so glad that you had the same ideas as me!
therapsis wrote:
our own governments spying on their citizens is the greatest danger
without privacy there is no free speech because people will be silent out of fear of persecution
unrestricted debate is the first requirement for a free society
I to myself personally this was the greatest danger.
for most countries that are under developed, malnutrition-hunger, unemployment and corruption.
The Bush Administration. It is unprecedented what they are doing, have done, and are planning to continue in the future.
complicated wrote:
The Bush Administration. It is unprecedented what they are doing, have done, and are planning to continue in the future.
Yes, but let’s be totally honest, Bush is first and foremost a local act of stupidity. An act of stupidity that will (I hope) resolve itself in about a year.
In the big picture Bush’s stupidity is a localized event that only hurts the USA. As much as we want to believe otherwise Bush is not a global scale disaster.
Really, what about the Iraq war. That’s not just hurting the US? What about his talks about war with Iran? Oh, then there’s North Korea…he put his incompetence in the mix there. Bush is a global disaster. In the big picture, if there is no more America because our civil liberties have been eroded away because of what he’s done, That is the global disaster.
complicated wrote:
Really, what about the Iraq war. That’s not just hurting the US? What about his talks about war with Iran? Oh, then there’s North Korea…he put his incompetence in the mix there. Bush is a global disaster. In the big picture, if there is no more America because our civil liberties have been eroded away because of what he’s done, That is the global disaster.
The Iraq war is a mess the the USA is in.. IT’S GOING TO HURT US. An Iran war is going to hurt the USA. Our civil liberties are highly eroded under Bush. These are facts I agree with 100%. Plus, Bush let an American city sink Atlantis stile into the gulf of Mexico. He also doesn’t read.. and thinks that we all come from the great blue pumpkin (pray to the pumpkin, my child)…… But all said and done, he is not the end of the world.
But, if I was living in Canada, I would not care at all about American politics. The only reason I care about these things is because I am an American.
Canada should care though…can everyone say CANAMEX? That’ll be the name of the North American Union.
CAn we really blame everything on Bush? Our civil liberties have been erroding for years prior to Bush even entering the white house. Our government is as corrupt as any other and that is what will happen when you give one person more power than any other, you can’t expect him to have integrity too…. We have lost (and are losing) civil liberties because we allow it to happen. THere are many MORE people who say, ‘I don’t care what the government does as long as I can live my life’, than those who say, ‘I live my life in accordance with what the government does’. There are lots of ways to get involved and how many of us are? How many of us sit on the web and complain about the way it is, but do nothing to change it?
Taylor: maybe you can change it with your paper! Good luck.
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I hope she can…she’s the future. But I’m extremely involved & fear it’s past changing. And yes, we really can Blame everything on Bush…it makes me feel better:)
But, if I can’t blame Bush, the second biggest danger to the world is religion. Religion causes more blood to be spilled on this planet than any other force.
Complicated: LOL if it makes you feel better, now be prepared I’m going to say something unpopular: We will never end religious wars, (here come the radical part) and we shouldn’t we need them for population contol! :-(
This is an interesting post. I will be watching this one.
In my opinion, the greatest danger to the world is an apathetic attitude towards world problems. The “it does not affect me so, I don’t give a ****” attitude.
Now this is the right attitude!
“Taylor: maybe you can change it with your paper! Good luck.”
Nuclear Weapons, search CND, NPT, and http://www.acronym.org.uk/parliament/…
good luck.
maybe DU, cluster bombs,
you’re in Oz what do you think of water shortages and how much water going into raising cattle for food rather than the more efficient grain.
Taylor, is there any help here?
lol… right African Killer Bees
There will always be a class struggle. There will always be corruption in power. There will always be fundamentalism in Religion…. these things will always be, and are a trouble to our world yes.
The bottom line, we were created to be care takers of the earth. When we start believing that…AND acting in that way (EACH ONE OF US), only then will we see improvement… the greatest danger is man’s apathy to his spirit and the neglect of his responsibilities.
bright blessings~
Richard
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Apologises to all who knew that.
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shoot, it was supposed to be the actual videos, hmmmmmm, well watch it any way, I’ll work on how to put the whole video on here for you
I love the question!
I would say the greatest danger is each individual becoming so sucked up into our own little worlds that we are not willing to stand up for justice, equality and a right to basic living standard. This is what allows governments and businesses to mistreat and overlook those wihout power, because they think no one is willing to risk their comforts for others. (kind of like screamingly wonderful says)
Disease. Look up CA-MRSA. That is one of the diseases I have that is terminal. CA-MRSA will have out killed AIDS by 2010. The problem with CA-MRSA is no one understands it when poeple come into the hospital ceptic so they die, and there is no cure for it as it is a superbug that devours antibiotics for lunch!
Good luck ~smiles~
actually both wasps the bugs and wasps the people are bastards so really, I dont trust either..
yes, there is the superbug, and birdflu SARS crossover thing cos we are due (overdue?) another flu epidemic.
i think media is the most dangerous thing facing our world rite now because it tells people what they should be like and what they should do and how they should look. it has caused millions of teens to devolp serious disorders.
Good point Love is not Lust!
Someone on the radio this morning said over-population, I could go for that too, I don’t think relying on wars to bring to numbers down really helps.
there are so many good ideas on here that i think i will write a speech saying that their isn’t just one “greatest” danger, but many. It is interesting to read that alot of people have suggested things like everybody get stuck in their own world and thinking that “it wont affect me” because being ignorant to what is happening in the world around is definitely dangerous!. Thankyou so much for your help :)
I think I speak for every one when I say… You are welcome!
Hey maybe you could post the paper when it is done! I have no doubt it will be great.
oh I got it wrong our politician said shocking increase in Obesity, because of poor health and early death.
And unless I missed it, (sorry if someone did) AiDS in many Third World countries, or even those like South Africa which could do a better job of controlling it if they excepted condoms prevented it and Western drugs can help rather than thinking going with a virgin will cure you. Of course then the West should make the drugs cheap and available. There’s the Catholic Churches teaching too but we won’t start on that. : )
Ok sorry i havent been able to reply for so long, school commitments got the best of me. However in regards to this post about the speaking competition, i have to thank everybody who replied to the post and helped me because the speech i wrote and performed won me a $50 000 scholarship to university and i could not have done it without all your input. So next year i have a chance to study at a university that was originally out of my budget as it was private but now its all my dreams come true! thanks everybody!!
WOW Taylor that is great. Congratulations! What topic did you finally choose?
Congrats! We now know who to ask for speech writing help…
You did say something about posting the paper up here. Is it too long to post here? If so and if you still want to then make a blog page and post the link. I would be interested in seeing a $50,000.00 speech!
No way I didn’t realise it was _that_ important, how fabulous! Well done, please make the best of Uni in all ways. I never got the chance to go you are lucky, but are obviously working hard too.
GOOOOOOOOOOO TAYLOR!
Congratulations Taylor! Oh yes, and I second Sully; it would be cool to see your speech!
Its very long! I will try and post it shortly :)
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