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I’m Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News, So I Illustrated 50 Of The Best Ones From 2019
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We are often bombarded with fear-mongering and shocking headlines that make us feel that the world is falling apart.
However, while it’s important to report on problems and issues, I believe there is so much good in this world that it needs to be found and promoted just as widely.
Because of that, I started The Happy Broadcast. It's an anti-venom to the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media. Also, this year, I’ve illustrated even more happy news than in 2018.
We need more positive news to acknowledge that the world is actually getting better little by little.
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When I'm working on The Happy Broadcast, I try to pick news that has an international appeal and touches themes like animal rights, climate change and science. News that shows how much we’re progressing on many fronts despite being often bombarded with few-mongering headlines.
I think there are many reasons why negative news is dominating the media. It's like a sudden disaster a, it's more compelling than, for example, little improvements. Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren’t built in a day, and as they unfold, they're out of sync with the news cycle.
As humans, we have this thing called “negative bias” that make us respond quicker to bad or dangerous situations. Nowadays, this bias is getting in the way of our happiness and well-being, and even our productivity because most of the narrative surrounding us (print, online or mobile) is that the “world is ending".
I think we should find a balance between negative and positive news. From politics to climate change and economy, negative and bad news surrounds us everywhere we go. A potential solution could be to limit the amount of bad news, basically slow down our personal news cycle, adding some positive news to our “news diet” to make sure that our outlook on the world is more optimistic. Also, it's very important to invest time to deal with misinformation and the reliability of news sources.
Nairobi has a baby elephant orphanage. So I guess not. Of course, if they are brought up in the orphanage, which is by Nairobi National Park, then they are not sold to a zoo or circus.
This is definitely a good thing, but be careful to remember that fortnite is known for an especially toxic crunch culture. Employees are expected to work insane hours with no pay. Planting forests is good, but he should also be held responsible for the unfair and harmful working conditions his company creates.
The rabid, right-wingers still spewing their nonsense that renewables will drive prices up so high no one will be able to have electricity will not be noticing this development. The belief disconfirmation paradigm is too powerful for some people to overcome.
Glad to see them come back. Sad that they died out there in the first place.
This is nice, but it would be better if children being educated wasn’t contingent on their parents paying any sort of fee.
*one of mathematics most prestigious awards. The Abel prize for mathematics. The most prestigious is the fields medal, was first (and so far only) won by a woman in 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani.
Although the use of solar panels is green, many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. To create a solar panel, caustic materials will emit greenhouse gases. Plus less than 11% of each panel has salvageable metals so they're not very recyclable once they're usable life has expired. Most people aren't aware that the 'green' alternatives often aren't.
Note: this post originally had 143 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Needed to read some good news today. Thanks Bored Panda!
And I'm glad that I read it yesterday when there were over 100 posts and not just the 50 that are left now...
If you click on the link at the bottom you can read all of them.
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Posts like these give me faith in humanity. Don't get me wrong, it's important to be informed about world issues, but it's nice to escape that every once in a while and know how far we've come.
Life is calmer when people take care of their little spheres in the world and stop obsessing about the whole world. People who mire themselves in the world's problems start to see people as the enemy.
WOW!!!! This may be the best boredpanda post EVER!!!! Boredpanda needs to post more like this.
THANK YOU. to the person that made this.
*Reading this post filled you with determination.*
Perfect timing for there news, so we know it was actually a good year
Need this everyday, please.
I needed this so much too. THANKS A MILLION!
Good stuff and plenty of it. Thank you.
Thank you. I really needed this. My faith in this world and humanity has been at an all time low lately. We all could do with more good news in the world.
quick share these for when they suddenly don't exist anymore
When BP shortens a story, you can still access the full version using the link at bottom.
The happy news is obviously better than all the bad news!
This is a great post and many of these are amazing things, the problem is that the more we keep people alive and the longer they live the bigger the population gets which isn't sustainable. So it's a double edged sword. It's a catch-22.
Thanos will take care of that
The growing population truly isn't sustainable on a planet-wide basis. There is only one realistic way of controlling it and most people don't like it, they don't like it at all. Unfortunately, if we carry on as we are, there will need to be control over how many new humans get made. 😲 That or some pandemic will wipe out huge numbers and solve the problem that way... though that one sounds considerably worse to me!
Realism, Alice Laughs. If by policing language you are referring to laws against hate speech inciting acts of violence against others, no-one is stopping anyone saying what they like as long as it isn't stirring up acts of terrorism. It just means that there are consequences. In the UK we are happy with that thanks.
Hmm, overpopulation with the trend of cancel culture, banning anything you disagree with, and people willing to police language. Trying to remain positive...
This made my month!
Really enjoyed this post and the artwork was lovely.
this is the best post and cute artwork!
Best post
Really fun, informative, and feel-good post. Needed this today.
Thank you Happy Broadcast <3
This is exactly what I needed on a bad day :)
Thanks for the goods news !!
This is amazing 😍
I wish I could publish a paper or zine or something that was nothing but good news. Not that we all don't know there are terrible things happening in the world, but it would be nice to focus on the good stuff. Guess that's why a lot of us come to Bored Panda.
Thank you, these are great. I would love to have each meme linked to a reliable source so I can happily spread them around with the source link! What you think??
Hmmm, maybe humans aren't so bad after all
These guys did some amazing things this year too. Probably could do with some more exposure, so: https://theoceancleanup.com/ Recht zo die gaat jongens!
Thank you very much to make me happy today! Btw, #39 and #46 are the same...
Kinda sad #teamtrees is that low
It's good to see someone wanting to spread good news! Sad that so many people had to add negative comments to many of them, kinda missed the point didn't they?
This is the most amazing post I read in the last few years!! Thank you for gathering such valuable content and making such beautiful, interesting illustrations!! Love the way each pic is designed. Please make it a video and I'm sure many will watch it.
Thank you, Mauro and Julija! More , please!
This makes me so happy I want to cry! What can I do to help?
What about stop complaining about bad news, and get to work to fix what's bad in the world; then, there would be only good news to report. Get involved.
Thanks Bored Panda, much good news, also, great information !!!
I think a balance is better. Transparency reduces corruption. Confidentiality "divides and conquers" unity in humanity. All CULTures reduce free thinking and truer happiness. Imagine developmentally disabled having equal power and wealth to intellectuals.
When I read these good news headlines, it helps me realize that we are making progress. Yes, there's a lot of bad news in the world, but good news is just as plentiful when we look for it. Good news is healing. I'm sharing this on all my social media pages!
Lifted me ... made me smile. Thank you for sharing such great news.
Best news I've read in a long time. Thank you this has given me hope for the future and made me happy.
Love the illustrations and news they represent. Would like to have a link to the original news story for reference plz
Thank you Mario. A good effort was put into this and it was very interesting. Just a pity our world is so distorted that these things happen once in a blue moon. We can have the world be mostly fantastic and turn things around. But we have to withdraw from bank issued money. This is imperative if we want peace in the world and in our lives because banksters will bleed you dry. Yes even you.
Love, Love, Love it.....thank you for uplifting......
Awesome post -- I agree that there's WAY too much negative bias on the internet. One of my favorite pieces of "good news" from this year is that the European Investment Bank, the world's largest multilateral lender, recently announced that it will stop funding fossil fuel projects by 2021 and divert those funds to renewables instead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-europe-eib-idUSKBN1XO2OS
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Great to read Good News, I hardly read newspapers any more!
I love it, now this should inspire all countries to follow, not just one!
Thank you! If we keep this up maybe the future generations will actually have a planet
awesome!! loved this
this is fab...keep it up!!
There's been a ton of great news lately though, communists got BTFO'd in a lot of western countries, the US economy is doing great, brexit is finally going to go through without impedance. Overall SJW's are losing and the people are regaining some of their power.
Love it! Thank you so much!
This made me feel good!! I do wish I hadn't read some of the comments though. Just be happy with the good stuff!!
I love this post!!!!!
That was a tonic. I am going to save it to look at when I get down about the state of the planet.
I know this was supposed to help my mood, but it just made me sadder. Because these comics are the opposite of whats happeing in this world.
This should be printed and bound into a children’s book annually! I would totally buy it for my nieces and nephews
Reading this just made me feel sadder! How can homo sapiens have developed so much technology and yet remain so stupid! So sad...
Thank you so much for the good news. We all need it badly.
Excelente! Good news are rarely written in such an abundance.
Thank you sooooo much. I bet there are plenty more of these positive news. If we could concentrate on those instead of bad news, scandals, fake news and all the bs we are exposed to everyday, the world would be a better place. I applaud your dedication.
Apart from #42 and #49 it was great to read some good news this morning.....thankyou.
are there links to each news story? i want to know more!
This was ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. Thank you so much for taking the time to put together and share this positive news with the rest of us.
This must be the best post I've seen on BP!
Nice list of happy events except don't see why Taiwan would be happy about joining the morally depraved countries that support homosexuality.
These illustrations are really good, congrats!
Thank you
Thank you