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I’m Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News, So I Illustrated 50 Of The Best Ones From 2019
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 am so happy for their victory, but just find it bonkers that an indigenous tribe had to fight a legal battle to protect their land in the first place.
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.
Hm, I think Sweden must have forgot to apply then. We dont have stray dogs, at least for decades. Any lost dog gets collected, if no owner is found it gets adopted via Animal Protection. I have seen one or two lost dogs, where we found the owner, but never a genuine stray.
I really want a black cat, they are often in shelters, and the y are so cute!!!!!!!!
Black cats are wonderful, just like other cats... they just have a nonsense bad reputation. I've had many black cats over my lifetime - all of them adopted/rescued, and all of them were/are lovely
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i would say down vote, but i dont want down votes. upvote if you hate passionately puppy mills
But I think it's still nice to raise a dog since it was a puppy, or is that not so common?
I have a rescue from our local animal shelter who was just 2.5 months old when I got him. Adoption included microchipping and neutering. Added bonus: he was crate trained before I got him too. Another added bonus: they thoroughly vetted him before I got him and there was complete disclosure of all medical conditions that he had and may develop within 5 years. We've been together for a wonderful 13 years now and his only problem is arthritis
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Finally...NO to puppy mills and a big thumbs up to rescue organizations. I’m thrilled🐾🐾🐾👍🏼
How about outlawing the sale of dogs in shops altogether.
How I wish every state would enforce this law. We must stop puppy mills and illegal breeders of all animas!
The pet stores have already found a way around this great initiative. They just lie, make up shelters, charge through the roof for "purebred rescues", and keep up with their general sh*tty behavior. It IS a great initiative, but it needs a LOT of oversight to be successful.
Just another ugly truth behind the good news.
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The person who planned this idea, deserves a medal, and pray for this to be around the world, we must end puppy mills, and over breeding of cats for sale, of special breeds, as there are some bad breeders, if the special breeds of kittens, are not perfect, what is done with them ???
What do you think Sharron? They discard them like a piece of trash.
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Another one I am very happy to hear, put the puppy mills, farms out of business
And ban breeders while they're at it. Until there are no animals in shelters, at least.
Yoyo, I hope you are talking about puppy mills.
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Rescue/shelter animals are so often the sweetest and most grateful. They really do know and appreciate being adopted. Give 'em a chance to show themselves off!
You're absolutely right, Sue. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain, American writer (1835 - 1910)
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Many of our pet stores in Canada work with rescue organizations and shelter. They will have cats up for adoption in their stores. A wonderful idea in my opinion.
I still don't think this is right. No store should be selling dogs, cats or rabbits. It saddens me that some people have no respect or caring for animals and would see this as an opportunity to do heaven knows what to these rescue animals, Does not bare thinking about.
JJM, I assume that the pets belong to the shelters, not to the stores which exhibit them, and are therefore adopted from shelters, not sold by stores.
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The problem is somebody these puppy mills come up with fake rescues, to still be able to sell their puppies. There are investigative studies out there, it's a good rule of thumb is if a puppy costs more than a couple hundred it's not from a rescue.
I did not know that and I am typing this in California. There are plenty of good animals out there. My sister got a great cat from a shelter. She was all potty trained and very well socialized by her former owner.
I thank PetSmart for helping make the trend of retailers offering healthy spayed and neutered rescue animals. If people see them, they want them!
Excellent, California I pray that others will follow, If puppy mills supply pet stores, there will never be an end to the suffering Bravo !!!
i'm confused with what they mean by limit sales. like limit pricing? or how many of each animal can be sold? what limitation is imposed? genuinely just curious
They can sell rescued animals only, which are plentiful in shelters
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Now if they’d close the loophole that still allows them to operate.
YES!! YAY!! Now let’s start fining people who don’t spay/neuter, and BAN sales on kittens & puppies online!!! (gumtree in the u.k. allows this, and these awful people force their cats to have kittens year after year!) I’ve volunteered for no-kill shelters and it’s heartbreaking. I’ve had a dozen kittens clinging to me within minutes of my arrival. This is unacceptable for “developed” countries. We domesticated them, they’re our responsibility.
That is very good news, saves innocent lives, eliminate suffering.
That is great, however, I heard that in NC, and many other states, there are NO tether laws and "people" let their dogs to freeze to death in winter, and die of thirst in summer. What are the lawmakers doing about that?
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california? my whole country has banned petshops pet sales. and I live in a third world country
How do your country cares for homeless animals, Kim?
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Joel, is that the question for Kim? I would like to know how they care about their homeless animals.
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If a pet stores help to adopt homeless animals from shelters, that's good, isn't it Jacqui? But that's a big "if"... must be regulated.
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This is actually potentially dangerous. I definitely think breeders should have to register and be regulated. But responsible breeders can actually do wonderful things for the continuation of breed health. They do a lot to help lengthen and improve the life of the dogs they breed. I also think that there are cases where a purebred dog is just the best fit for some families. They have different care needs, and more importantly, different pray drives. I think for families with young children and such it is very important to know what to expect from a dog. As someone who personally has pretty severe dog allergies, I had to be very sure my dog wouldn't cause me to have a reaction. He is the light of my life, and I have seen my depression and anxiety improve immensely because of him.
I did extensive reaserch regarding the breeder I purchased him from, and I truly admire their dedication to the wellbeing of their puppies and parents. Understand that good breeders are few and far in between, but those who are still out there do wonderful work to protect the health of dogs. Rescues do just as much good, of course. I’ve fostered 2 dogs and 10 cats, and I know how important rescue organizations are. I have four rescues at home, and I adore them, but when it comes to my puppy- there isn’t a way he could be more perfect for me; his breed couldn’t be more perfect for me. I believe in adoption, but making it the only option is a lot like telling people they can no longer have children, but must instead adopt: it just doesn’t fit all life styles, and the good it does only lasts so long. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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GREAT NEWS! Quite a lot of states are doing this now and here in Queensland, Australia, a lot of the pet stores are doing that too.
Good. I think there are bans of puppy & kitten sales in U.K. pet shops now or soon.
As far as I know this has hugely backfired as puppy mills now just put up a front of a rescue and do their breeding business just away from public eye :(
Will ever "people" stop exploiting animals? When puppy mills will be outlawed???
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Sadly pet stores co-opt the shelter concept by selling milled dogs as rescues.
Retail rescue brings unsuitable and diseased pets into the US as opposed to suitable hand reared American pets. Nothing to celebrate, bad news for America.
Sheri, if a pet store exhibits healthy rescues from shelters it is good for animals; no need for "suitable" hand reared pets for snobby Americans.
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Sham, you are out of your sick mind, compassionless, and cruel.
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All this does is perpetuate irresponsible breeding. Irresponsible breeding should be criminalized. That is the only true way to reduce the numbers of rescue and shelter animals.
What is meant to happen to puppies born in a good home? Are they meant to become rescue dogs just to be adopted? Most dogs and cats are born in homes not necessarily "farms". Cats and dogs give us a lot of happiness. This is mass birth control. It's awesome to adopt a rescue animal but why is it necessarily not good to adopt a kitten or puppy locally and they can move from one home environment to another.
Responsible people spay and neuter their pets, because there are too many animals which are never adopted and are euthanized. Please, do not have dogs and cats born in homes.
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I have never agreed with buying animals. Like slavery, a life cannot have a price on it. This is so good especially as it will help so many shelter animals that need love and a home!
You still pay the rescue shelter and whilst it gets called adoption to all intents and purposes you're buying. My most recent rescue cost me £175.00 to adopt. I do appreciate the point that you are making but there is also the problem that there are people who won't value something they get for free. The world is a mucked up and there are a lot of people who shouldn't have a pet regardless.
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SOOOO not against this! But....shouldn't it be equal pay for equal skill? (meaning, no race, gender, age, or any discrimination at all!) If you have more skill in the task, you get paid more, if you have less you get paid less. Plain and simple (yet I know it is more difficult to prove wrong-doing that way too)
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.
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And I'm glad that I read it yesterday when there were over 100 posts and not just the 50 that are left now...
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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.
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WOW!!!! This may be the best boredpanda post EVER!!!! Boredpanda needs to post more like this.
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.
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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.
Really fun, informative, and feel-good post. Needed this today.
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??
Thank you very much to make me happy today! Btw, #39 and #46 are the same...
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.
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.
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
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
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.
This made me feel good!! I do wish I hadn't read some of the comments though. Just be happy with the good stuff!!
That was a tonic. I am going to save it to look at when I get down about the state of the planet.
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 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.
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.
Nice list of happy events except don't see why Taiwan would be happy about joining the morally depraved countries that support homosexuality.
I have been plagued with depression for weeks. Blah. I cry every morning. This morning, it was finally about something good. Thanks Bored Panda for making this the top story in my email.
When you are bombarded with stories of decline, loss, and hopelessness it is easy to think "Why bother" - this is why we should bother! Perhaps the news channels should take a leaf out of Mauro Gatti's post and throw us a sucess story once and a while. Thank you
I've been reading a lot of pessimistic stuff lately, so this really helped me out. Thanks. :)
Love these happy, good-news stories; keep them coming to preserve our sanity!
Thank you for Real life giving News Strange to Feel so starved Overwhelmingly Grateful for a glimpse of life giving World issues included in the news For the eyes ask us to consider: the addiction to trauma can be Starving this species Reading what feeds us life may be more critical to survival than Tracking the enemy.
3 things to say! 1. All of this is magnificent! Bravo to all 😊👏🏻 2. It’s so sad to see the differences between parts of the world-some make fake islands for flora and fauna while some are getting electricity. 3. People are awful. To even come to this state,to destroy everything on their way... In any case,kudos for all the positivity here 😊
I am sad to see the us very low on the list of contributions. We as a people need to start to fight again for the rights of our children, grandchildren, etc. We expect them to respect us, when we do not have any respect ourselves. Let us make 2020 a year where there is more good news than bad.
Fantastic !!! Thank you for this very welcome GOOD NEWS ✨⭐️🌟💛 I love positive movements !!! Signed: a Dutch artist living in the midst of the frequent strikes in Paris.
This gives us all hope and inspiration to make a difference. Thank you. Plus the drawings are so adorable. Had a smile on my face the whole time while reading the piece!
Thanks. I sometimes think networks, including weather channels, search out the most Godawful stuff they can find. A little "fair and balanced" would be nice . This helps.
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And I'm glad that I read it yesterday when there were over 100 posts and not just the 50 that are left now...
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... WOW!!!! This may be the best boredpanda post EVER!!!! Boredpanda needs to post more like this.
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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Really fun, informative, and feel-good post. Needed this today.
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??
Thank you very much to make me happy today! Btw, #39 and #46 are the same...
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.
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.
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
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
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.
This made me feel good!! I do wish I hadn't read some of the comments though. Just be happy with the good stuff!!
That was a tonic. I am going to save it to look at when I get down about the state of the planet.
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 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.
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.
Nice list of happy events except don't see why Taiwan would be happy about joining the morally depraved countries that support homosexuality.
I have been plagued with depression for weeks. Blah. I cry every morning. This morning, it was finally about something good. Thanks Bored Panda for making this the top story in my email.
When you are bombarded with stories of decline, loss, and hopelessness it is easy to think "Why bother" - this is why we should bother! Perhaps the news channels should take a leaf out of Mauro Gatti's post and throw us a sucess story once and a while. Thank you
I've been reading a lot of pessimistic stuff lately, so this really helped me out. Thanks. :)
Love these happy, good-news stories; keep them coming to preserve our sanity!
Thank you for Real life giving News Strange to Feel so starved Overwhelmingly Grateful for a glimpse of life giving World issues included in the news For the eyes ask us to consider: the addiction to trauma can be Starving this species Reading what feeds us life may be more critical to survival than Tracking the enemy.
3 things to say! 1. All of this is magnificent! Bravo to all 😊👏🏻 2. It’s so sad to see the differences between parts of the world-some make fake islands for flora and fauna while some are getting electricity. 3. People are awful. To even come to this state,to destroy everything on their way... In any case,kudos for all the positivity here 😊
I am sad to see the us very low on the list of contributions. We as a people need to start to fight again for the rights of our children, grandchildren, etc. We expect them to respect us, when we do not have any respect ourselves. Let us make 2020 a year where there is more good news than bad.
Fantastic !!! Thank you for this very welcome GOOD NEWS ✨⭐️🌟💛 I love positive movements !!! Signed: a Dutch artist living in the midst of the frequent strikes in Paris.
This gives us all hope and inspiration to make a difference. Thank you. Plus the drawings are so adorable. Had a smile on my face the whole time while reading the piece!
Thanks. I sometimes think networks, including weather channels, search out the most Godawful stuff they can find. A little "fair and balanced" would be nice . This helps.
LOAN BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS ONLINE FREE OF CHARGE A VERY DYNAMIC TEAM TO THE TASK. Need I say more a hand to quit a financial stalemate that has lasted for a while because of your bank's refusal for a loan or financing, no problem even if you are stuck in your country and do not have access to financing leave an email : greniernathalie1@yahoo.com * Financial * Real estate loans * Investment loans. Ps: Know that we work to your satisfaction, you can follow your file to know its evolution.
