100 Positive News from 2023 | Gapminder
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100 Positive News from 2023 | Gapminder
Faced with a name like the Terrible Twenties, many people might point out that humans today are in some ways far better off than they’ve ever been: life expectancies are up, on the whole, compared with a century ago (though they dipped during the pandemic); extreme poverty has sharply declined. It seems possible, though, that both interpretations a
... See morefrom The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka
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it doesnt help that the interconnected nature of society is constantly serving reminders of the tragic, the inequities and the many things happening to us that remain beyond our control. the quality of life baseline may be higher today, but what a life of quality is remains as far from our collective grasp as ever.
- Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.
from Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
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- “Where we once justified our daily anxieties by doom scrolling through bad news, we now post memes that epitomise our sense of mass existentialism, taking part in a sort of performative negativity that, as a result, protects us against reality,” says Holly Friend, deputy foresight editor at futures consultancy, The Future Laboratory.
from ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now by marie-claire chappet
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