This article summarizes the global water issue that are happening in the world right now and discusses the brilliant the idea that jobs should be created to tackle the water crisis, but also to create new job opportunities for thousands of people around the world. After climate change and weapons of mass destruction, water crisis is currently ranked as the third most impactful risk facing the world today. Aside from major water quality issues and droughts in third world countries, even the US is experiencing failing drinking water quality and wastewater infrastructure because leaking pipes, sewage overflow and stormwater systems create inefficient systems of waste and pollution.
Additionally, over the past year, the UN estimated that 600 million new jobs will have to be created worldwide by 2025 to keep up with the pace of our growing working age population. Also, approximately 25% of the world’s working class and who also live in developing countries, live below the poverty line. That is an astonishing number, but there can be a link between these two attention-needing issues!
Imagine if new jobs became created with the soul purpose of tackling current world crises, benefitting our communities, and aiding the planet. If there was a switch from the ‘corporate regular jobs that we all know’ to new creative and unique jobs that would actually have a bigger purpose, meaning and would bring real value to the world. If this could be done about the water crisis, but also all of the other world’s struggles, then maybe we would start seeing faster change in a more sustainable, ethical and conscious direction. If all 600 million new jobs were created with the focus to eliminate climate change, improve water situations around the world, reduce carbon footprints, improve the disease outbreaks in developing countries, then we would start to see quicker change. I realize that this may be unrealistic, to dedicate 600 million jobs to causes like this, but it would definitely shift the way people think and live, it would change people’s perspectives of the world and would change their values. It would even change people’s approaches in finding the right job, and instead would maybe focus on the greater things that come from a job, rather than a paycheque, benefits and working in a nice office. If jobs were created to specifically change and benefit the world, then that would be the working classes’ goals- finding a job with a bigger purpose and meaning.
