The Good News You Might Have Missed | DailyGood

We get to choose whether to despair or hope. And it is increasingly difficult to choose hope in a world with headlines about famine, war, intolerance, and disaster. That choice, however, can be made more equitable, when we also choose to widen our field of vision to include less attention-grabbing, click-oriented headlines. Angus Harvey delivers a striking reminder in his 9-minute TED2024 talk that there are plenty of hopeful stories worth bringing into focus: diseases like Hepatitis C were eliminated in Egypt and AIDS prevalence declined across the world, extreme poverty declined to its lowest level in human history in 2023, and deforestation across the Amazon Basin declined by 55 percent. “This is not some weird attempt to cancel or balance out the bad news,” Harvey admits. “But if we want more people to devote themselves to the task of making progress, then maybe we should be telling more people that it’s possible to make progress.”



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