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Problems can be classified as private or public. Private problems are problems that effect a single individual, while public problems effect many individuals or an ecosystem. Public problems can emerge when private problems spill into the public sphere or consciousness.
For example, a person with an aliment could be viewed as having the private problem. However, if many people are discovered to have the same aliment, then it may enter the public sphere. The public sphere will ask who, what, when, where, why, and how: Who has the aliment? What is the aliment? When were they diagnosed with the aliment? Where were they living or working or visiting? Why do they have the aliment? How did the aliment emerge?
Discussing public problems involves face-to-face and online interactions between individuals.
Estimated Time
An estimated 2 hours is needed to complete this activity.
Classroom Discussion
I got 99 public problems…, but in reality, there are a multitude of public problems in our neighborhood, community, city, county, region, state, nation, hemisphere, and mother Earth.
The goal of this discussion is for you to post a Public Problem and reply to at least 2 peer’s posts.
You are welcomed and encouraged to go above and beyond the minimum requirements by replying to a third peer’s post.
STEP 1: POST A PUBLIC PROBLEM
- State a public problem.
- Share why you think it is an important public problem to focus on.
- Explain what at least cause of the public problem is.
- Explain what at least effect of the public problem is.
STEP 2: REPLY TO A PEERS PUBLIC PROBLEM
- Validate your peers justification for focusing on the public problem.
- Add one additional cause of the public problem.
- Add one additional effect of the public problem.
STEP 3: REPLY TO A SECOND PEERS PUBLIC PROBLEM
- Validate your peers justification for focusing on the public problem.
- Add one additional cause of the public problem.
- Add one additional effect of the public problem.
ABOVE AND BEYOND: REPLY TO A THIRD PEER’S PUBLIC PROBLEM
- Validate your peers justification for focusing on the public problem.
- Add one additional cause of the public problem.
- Add one additional effect of the public problem.
discussion one
A popular public problem is climate change. This issue is important because it affects the whole world and could possibly end humanity. A cause of climate change is the overproduction of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide. These gasses get released from factories and transportation and they get trapped in the atmosphere making the atmosphere hotter and hotter. This is bad because it affects animals in their environment, i.e. artic animals will have nowhere to live if the ice in their environments melts and fish will have nothing to eat if the rising of the sea levels disintegrates all of their food. Greenhouse gas emissions are the leading cause of climate change. An effect of climate change is the rising of the acidic levels in the ocean. This is going to cause the extinction of many shelled animals in the ocean which will then disrupt the natural order of the food chain.
discussion two
A public problem that is happening now is climate change. I believe that it is a very important public problem because if we do not keep protecting and caring for our planet then we will not have life as it is now. There would be severe weather change and a lot of negative change in the atmosphere. We need to keep up with caring for the plant if we want Earth to be as it is now or was in the past instead of creating problems for the future. The cause of this problem is unhealthy habits on humans. We are living lifestyles and not thinking about how our actions are infecting the environment. The effect of this problem will be a change in ecosystems and the weather. There will be more storms and heavy conditions in different points of the World.
