100 Positive News from 2023 | Gapminder

The headlines of our time are all about decline, decay, catastrophe, tragedy. And they are true. But there is another truth. Dig a little, get beneath the surface, and we find people like these across the world, in every neighbourhood and every sector of society. This is why their stories, though uniquely individual, are at the same time remarkably

You can measure those benefits in terms of bad things that don’t happen: civil wars that don’t break out over water rights, farmers who don’t get wiped out by a drought or flood, cities that don’t get destroyed by hurricanes, waves of people who don’t become…

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Il n’est pas étonnant que nous ayons l’impression que tout se dégrade constamment. Les informations ne cessent de nous signaler les événements négatifs en cours. Le découragement que cela suscite en nous est accentué par notre incapacité à nous rappeler le passé. L’ancien temps nous apparaît sous un jour idéalisé, et nous ne savons plus que, il y a

In the year 2000, all 189 members of the United Nations, together with two dozen international organizations, agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals for the year 2015 that blend right into this list.31 And here is a shocker: The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: Almost n