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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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This must make many people happy due to one act. Lovely initiative.

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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".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hopefully supermarkets worldwide can implement more eco friendly alternatives also.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More funding is needed for stem cell research. They have already discovered some incredible ways stem cells can help with paralysis and other movement disorders etc. Imagine what else they can discover.

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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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Steps like these show the power of the State in achieving large scale sustainable results if there is a will.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a great contrast to all the negativity we hear about women's value in India.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, thank you, thank you! The bees thank you, and I thank you.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The entire world should bow down and give thanks for this. Let’s get this vaccine out into the bee population ASAP. And tell any anti-vaxxers who decide to protest it to just f**k off.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bees are clever. I bet there won't be any anti-vaxx bee..

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So after thousands of years of beekeeping, we're finally going to start stinging the little bastards back.

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Kathryn Bell
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thats great but what about the pesticides that harm them and loss of habitat

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, Kathryn's comment was not up-voted, although, it states obvious truth.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And let's here a second shout out for the innovative Finns who have just appointed the world's youngest female Prime Minister, 34 year old Sanna Marin. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-10/sanna-marin-named-as-youngest-ever-finnish-prime-minister/11778860

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ok, let me get this straight... we spray our plants with poison, we contaminate water and alter plants genetics,we create the horrible things that kill bees,and now we want to mess with them even more and vaccinate them against the very things we created? isn't it better to take care of the planet, allow real plants to grow as nature intended them to BE, stop hurting the water and the air and respect all beings and all life... no, that involves awareness, and caring, so...lets just make a vaccine for the bees.. sounds totally logical to me...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aixa, comments like yours do not get up-voted, yet, there are many 'wonderful', 'I-love-it' 'awesome' 'fabulous' comments. Taking care of our planet is not their thing. I lost all hope for the survival of this planet.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like there's a joke about autistic bees in this, but I don't know what it is

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see your point, Bob. I think all that pollution we create is destroying bees' natural defenses ........and our children's as well, not a joke, unfortunately.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought they haven't yet decided what what causes CCD?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's give them a clue, Sunzilla: maybe, just maybe, all that pollution humans are causing, all those poisons and toxins they are throwing into air, water, and soil...tons of them. That's something to think about, isn't it?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhhh... a vaccine for what? I wasn’t aware there was any sort of disease affecting bees, I thought it was just environmental damage causing the population decline.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A stupid question: how will they vaccinate bees? There's a much simpler and more effective way: stop throwing tons of poisons and toxins into air, water, and soil, and we can save not only bees but also ourselves!!!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for telling me something called the "bee apocalypse" exists without explaining what it was. I have a shooting pain in my left arm now.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Karen, you need to wake up and get down from the cloud nine. Get something for your shooting pain in your left arm, and when you'll feel better, join one (or more) environmental organization which fights for conservation of our planet and salvation of all life it supports, including our own. "I pledge allegiance to the earth - to the fauna and flora, and all life it supports. One planet, indivisible, with safe air, water and soil, justice, equal rights, and peace for all its inhabitants."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No this is bad. Vaccines are wicked. How about we stop destroying their habitat?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely, Denise. Why people have to first destroy everything, then cause more pain, suffering, and additional damage in the awkward attempt to fix it, while continuing to do harm? It's beyond me.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately Its for honey bees, which are not in decline. This needs to benefit the wild pollinators.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"....honey bees, which are not in decline" ????? What are you talking about, Kristine?? Ask any beekeepers, they'll tell you.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fungi could save the bees https://www.wired.com/story/a-mushroom-extract-might-save-bees-from-a-killer-virus/

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great news but what a united States what are they doing more so then foreigh countries.?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're right Janie, but I don't understand what for, and whom The Earth is thanking to? Is it thankful for all that disrespect and destruction we are causing? I think not; the earth is fighting back: there is a reason for all those unnatural natural disasters.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are Karnelia's and Jenn's comments down-voted? These are legitimate questions, and if you are not asking them then you should be down-voted for that.

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oh no... read "Stung" a book about bees getting a vaccine and then causing humans to mutate

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Scientists have already said there's no bee apocalypse. It's the anti vax people who say that the sprays farmers and gardeners use is what's "killing the bees"

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have always hated circuses. Even when I was so young I did not have the words to explain why I was crying. So good to see this!!!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll believe it when I see it. There have been stories of oil eating bacteria, and all sorts of magical things that eat the bad stuff. I hope to see it, but until then....

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is fantastic. Sooooo many people end up in jail or dead because we fail them as a society.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's adorable. Not sure how something involving grown adults and the most massive terrestrial animals can be adorable, but somehow it is.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great for packaging! For almost everything else, not so much. But still a great step forward!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is brilliant! And this research has taken a very long time to bear fruit. Thank god for scientists ;p

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is great! This is what us grown ups need to do for the climate strike kids.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So wonderful to see compassion making the law. * cries just a bit *

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glad to see them come back. Sad that they died out there in the first place.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ironic to place greenery on the exact place where ice and snow should be.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is nice, but it would be better if children being educated wasn’t contingent on their parents paying any sort of fee.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweet! Now they just need to do something about the cattle ranchers.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe so but what research has been made to find out the effects seaweed has on the cows body. We already know that corn isn’t very good for them yet they are still fed a high corn diet in some countries (US particularly).

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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