Summary Of The Commonweal Article What's Worse Than Terrorism

I decided to read the Commonweal article, "What's Worse than Terrorism?" written by Jo McGowan. The article talks about the problems of terrorism, hunger, disease, and climate change. News stations claim that the amount of terrorist attacks and deaths from terrorist attacks have risen from previous years. In reality, terrorist attacks went down thirteen percent from 2014 to 2015. The media makes everyone believe that terrorism is the main cause of death in the world. Hunger, disease, and climate change cause millions of deaths every year. Throughout the world, hunger and malnutrition cause 3.1 million deaths to children under five years old every year. In addition, diseases take the lives of 2.5 million children every year. Jo writes that climate change is another major problem in society today. She writes that climate-related disasters have increased forty-four percent in the last decade. These disasters cause …show more content…
Two specific things that I learned were the problems with hunger and disease in the world today. Hunger causes 3.1 million deaths to children annually. Millions of children do not have access to food that they need to survive. This should matter to my classmates because we often do not realize how fortunate we are to have food on the table every night. Another one of the world's biggest problems is disease. Every year, diseases cause 2.5 million deaths to children annually. This is a correctable problem because most of these diseases have vaccinations. If more people were vaccinated, the amount of deaths caused by disease would be significantly lower. This should matter to my classmates because some people believe that vaccinations are not needed in society. In reality, vaccinations are a matter of life and death for some people around the world. The two things that should matter to my classmates are the problems of hunger and disease in the world