Alexander Stobbe Complex Problems Blog

Over Thanksgiving, I had the incredible opportunity to visit an Urban Garden in Detroit. In a city with a metropolitan area stretching over 100 square miles its fairly easy to see the problems that the Detroit Metro Area makes a rather large heat island in the United States. A great way to reduce that heat island is by the process of creating Urban Gardens. I was fortunate enough over the Thanksgiving break to visit such a garden in Southfield, Michigan. Over a cup of tea, I was invited to the house of my grandmother's friend for her to show me their own small Urban Garden. The garden was on top of a roof of a very modern home, included with its own irrigation system and little ecosystem. The garden itself was no greater than 12 meters x 15 meters however it was still quite an impressive piece of architecture for such a home. On the opposite end of the house, they also include solar panels and their own garden where they grow vegetables. Overall, this experience ...

The class activity was chosen on purpose to teach us a lesson on cooperation and give an insight as to how pandemics are fought across the world. The goal of the activity was to teach us that in order to solve global conflicts it's necessary to pool resources together. During the activity, we pooled our resources to find a cure in South America and Asia by pooling our cards together and collectively worked on stopping certain diseases. The previous lecture on Organization helped us establish a process and better communication which allowed us to coordinate so well. In conclusion, the game was quite enjoyable as it allowed us to co-operate in order to work together to help save the world from epidemics. It taught us to work well in teams.

Do you agree with the statement, “Without reducing rapid population growth, it will be impossible to solve the world’s global challenges?” I agree with this statement to a great extent. The truth is many of the world global challenges both social and environmental can be attributed to the growing population problem. The African and Asian continent is the most culpable to the world problems. Partly the reason is that most if not all of the countries within the continent are developing countries. Therefore the population distribution is that of a triangle whereas the European and North American counterparts represent a rectangle. If the world continues to carry on this way, in our lifetime it will be impossible to solve the worlds global issues due to the fact we cannot control the world's population. The only solution, however, is aggressive modernization, economic reform and heavy investment in the availability in contraceptives in the developing parts of the ...