https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-goodnews-2021-2492e4fcacfb
"If you were asked to list the top global news stories of 2021, off the top of
your head, what would they be? Chances are you’d come up with some combination
of COVID-19, economic woes, political conflict, Afghanistan, natural disasters,
and maybe some space billionaires and Free Britney thrown in for good measure.
Oh, and don’t forget the Suez Canal!
What’s probably missing from your list is any good news, which seems pretty
strange. Even in the midst of a global pandemic, surely a few positive things
happened this year? Researchers would say it’s because of our negativity bias —
we’re wired, apparently, to pay attention to and remember things that are
shocking or scary. What if there’s a simpler explanation though? What if the
reason we can’t remember any good news is because nobody reported it in the
first place?
For the past several years, we’ve been putting that idea to the test, seeing
whether it’s possible to carve out a tiny little corner of the internet
dedicated exclusively to stories of progress. Not fluffy, feel good stories,
but big stories of real, lasting change for people and the planet. Over time,
we’ve gotten better at digging them up and this year, managed to find hundreds.
Boiling them down to just 99 was a struggle, but we got there in the end, with
only a tiny bit of cheating.
We hope you enjoy the list, and while you’re reading perhaps ask yourself: why
do so many of these stories come as a surprise? The answer, we think you’ll
find, is pretty simple. They never appeared on your screen or in your newspaper
at all."
Via Esther Schindler, who wrote "In case you need a reason to feel good about
the world, here are several reasons to smile."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
