• Question: If you had the ability to solve one problem in the world, what would it be?

    Asked by skyesibby to Nick, Madgie, Carla on 9 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Carla Turner

      Carla Turner answered on 9 Nov 2013:

      This is such a hard question!
      I feel like I should say world peace…

      But something more realistic, we are having loads of problems with our bees at the moment. Bees are really important in pollinating our plants and if we didn’t have bees, we would have serious problems growing food.

      They are ill, have no home (we keep building things on it) and they are being affected by chemicals we use. So I would like to find a way of helping them out and making them happy bees!

    • Photo: Nick Groves-Kirkby

      Nick Groves-Kirkby answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      I would like to provide clean water and sanitation (proper toilets and sewers) for everyone. Around a billion people in the world don’t have access to these facilities, and I think it’s pretty disgraceful that this is still the case in 2013.

      What annoys me is that we pretty much have the technology to make this happen, and have had for many years. But getting money and technology to the places that need it is very difficult. Clean water is really a problem of politics and economics rather than of technology nowadays.

      Water is also needed for farming and for factories. As the world climate changes over the next 50 years, some countries may run out. People say that wars might be fought over water supplies, but hopefully this won’t be true!

    • Photo: Marlene Lorgen

      Marlene Lorgen answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      I would like to solve the hunger and poverty problems in the world. It seems very unfair to me that some countries (such as ours) have so much while others have so little. Although the rich countries do generally try to help poorer countries, much more needs to be done. Work such as Carla’s which aiming to create modified plants which are tolerant to drought, i.e. low water availability, are a step in the right direction, as teaching farmers to grow such modified strains could provide a means of growing more food without needing more water in a water starved country.

      As well as helping those in 3rd world countires, there is also poverty in our own country which needs to be addressed, as I feel that no child should be subjected to it in a country which should be able to provide for everyone.

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