How would you fix the worlds problems?

[Moneysavvymam]

I think i have it, I really do.
Everyone is using food banks, right? unemployment is rife. Depression, anxiety, suicide. Obesity. Anti social behaviour and crime rates.

Okay. Are you ready?

Community gardens and orchards. Free to pick what you like, children's and adults clubs to teach people when to pick, sow, etc. Not just food but flowers. Trees. Perenials such as rhubarb, kale and others. I really think that it could work.

I saw a TED Talk about a town who has a whole community or people who grow food in random places wherever there is a free bit of grass and I swear to god I think it could work really well.

I actually can't see a problem arising and if the problem is 'the economy' well how? Because when people are struggling to pay for food I really dgaf about the economy.
Allotments are a nice idea but many are full and have waiting lists of Years and years.

We have a couple of small, secret almost community gardens in a few big parks in our city and they are really cute, work well. Nobody ruins them and if someone took all of the cucumbers then there is a spirit of 'well I guess they needed them'. Part of the reward is in the growing and outside space and time.

Also flowers. There are so many people living in tiny flats with no or very little outside space. Wouldn't adding a few flowers be nice? Maybe a pear tree or 2.

Its the good life isn't it? A very frequent dream is packing up and living off the land. Well why not communal land? What good is that piece of grass? Needs cutting, is littered all over and what? Pooed on?

I'm not some radical who will go round digging up peoples gardens or anything but I was thinking about a previous poster who said that they sorted out their communal garden in their flats and only after she made it nice did everyone else start using it. Well wouldn't the same happen everywhere?
People pay money to go to botanical gardens, so there is a market for this (if you know what I mean)

There could be communal run compost bins which would dramatically reduce waste and green house gasses. That compost would mean almost no costs because that's the main one isn't it?
Classes could be held at libraries and community centres about seed saving.
Everyone could save their pot noodle pots and yoghurt tubs for plant pots. Arts and crafts fairs could have children painting them, I just can't see a downside.

That is how I would fix the worlds problems anyway.

I would get rid of religion as it is mostly at the centre of all the problems in the world.

A nuclear bomb or a meteor ought to do it TBH

Make women in charge.

People have allotments for this purpose.
Which are extremely community minded

BUT

Everyone who has their allotment loves allotmenting and they work hard. If people don’t love it, they get asked to leave. So in this idea community garden idea there will probably be some people who end up shouldering the burden, and it’ll end up all Jackie weaver.

What we should do is have fucking thousands of allotments. The wait list for my area is 25 years cause they sold them all for housing.

Anyway, being a lover of gardening, simply most people don’t care. Much like most people don’t care about much other than being able to get cheap chicken and tomatoes in December

So actually after my waffling
Meteor /ice age/ nuclear bombs

Ensure world-wide significant taxation on the Uber-rich - no more tax havens. NO ONE needs a billion pounds. No one needs a yacht or a private jet or whatever nonsense. This money can then be used to properly fund services. Also cap the max salary a director can take (I'm still talking huge amounts), so there isn't a situation where directors are on ten million a year and employees are on NMW and having to top up with universal credit/food banks, i.e. tax payers essentially funding the company directors lifestyle.

Remove 99% of the people.

I think that's a very good idea, OP. It would tackle many issues - or at least go some way towards tackling them.

I'm not sure that it would necessarily be the best approach for some mental health difficulties and such. However, for people who would benefit from some form of occupational therapy, it's a very good idea.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/phantom-planter-on-a-mission-to-cover-northern-ireland-with-trees-38890442.html

Northern Ireland has a phantom tree planter.

He plants fruit trees on common land and plants native species to enlarge woods and forests.

I agree, community gardens. Funded by the sovereign grant.

@DollyDinkle

I would get rid of religion as it is mostly at the centre of all the problems in the world.

Secular countries manage to fuck things up perfectly well...

I would get rid of religion as it is mostly at the centre of all the problems in the world
While I agree with you people would just re group and start their own communities which leads to religon/ cults and you are back at square 1 but its hidden.

@barbrahunter

Make women in charge.

Yes cos that worked spectacularly well in the UK and in Germany, didn't it? Oh, hang on... May was dreadful. Merkel is dreadful. And that leaves Thatcher!

Food banks are a UK issue.
I really don't know how you solve the issues of farmers struggling to get the people needing to help with the harvest and food rotting in fields. While people rely on food banks.
It's obviously more complex than get the food bank people to do it.

One that really gets me is 'out of town shopping and business parks' they are everywhere then they wonder why the town centers are empty. And they spout about car use, get things back into the town and city centres accessible by bus & trains.

All manufacturers must be able to recycle their goods. We cannot keep filling the ground with junk.

I’d put testosterone blockers* in the water source.

*keep in mind I’m just chatting here and don’t know what the unintended consequences would be 😉

I recently went to a museum in a castle that had a section on the local regiment’s history. War after war after war…

Remove national boundaries

Outlaw religion

Let people roam where they will thrive

Tax the rich for the advantage of all

Stop wearing jewellery and make up - mining for precious gems, metals and mica is killing people.

Fund recycling initiatives that will genuinely sort recycling of electronic waste, plastics and chemicals

Penalise companies which make good which aren't recyclable

Share technologies, food and medicines

We have a couple of small, secret almost community gardens in a few big parks in our city and they are really cute, work well. Nobody ruins them and if someone took all of the cucumbers then there is a spirit of 'well I guess they needed them'. Part of the reward is in the growing and outside space and time.

But the whole community would have to be of the same attitude - do you honestly think that is likely?

What will happen is that some well meaning people will do the planting, and then some others will just take it without giving any thing back.

That is how it works.

As for women in charge? Wow. Just wow. Women are just, ya know, people and are just as likely as men to fuck things up!

@HarrietsChariot

I would massively decrease the world's population. Africa - gone, Asia - gone, South America - gone, Middle East - gone. Ideally with a non-nuclear solution so that these areas could then be repopulated with people from the rest of the world to spread the population more evenly. Obviously large parts of the eliminated regions are pretty inhospitibal to life anyway but I think the world could cope with having about one or two billion people left.

I'd run a very authoritan regime in which it was my way or goodbye. The death penalty would be reintroduced for most offences and certainly for repeat offenders. I'd televise the executions too, it could be a regular slot on The One Show or similar.

In this way I would successfully put an end to crime, hunger and poverty. The world would be a happier place and we would be able to get back to a more traditional way of living.

Jesus fucking Christ. Is this real?

It's a lovely idea but you'd get someone who came and picked all the fruit, caused a shortage in the market and then sold the fruit at a high price.

Tax the rich for the advantage of all

'The rich' already pay most of the tax in this country

I don't think I'd want to live in any nation that has banned religion any more than I would want to live in a nation where separation of Church/Mosque/Temple/Synagogue and State hasn't happened.

North Korea sounds no more appealing to me than Iran. shudders

The world is massively over populated. The earth simply cannot sustain this many people. Until the numbers drop to about 1/2 what they are now it’s all just arsing about.

Wait for Artificial Intelligence to be in charge, then ask it to end human suffering.

It will then kill everyone.