https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews2023/
"The news is supposed to tell us what's happening in the world. It doesn't. It
tells us what's going wrong. Thanks to a combination of commercial pressures,
cognitive biases and cultural habits, news organisations have become modern-day
doom machines, showcasing the worst of humanity, without highlighting any
progress, healing or restoration. Yes, journalism is supposed to hold truth to
power and when terrible things happen we shouldn't turn away. But when we only
hear stories of doom, we fail to see the stories of possibility. We deny
ourselves the opportunity to do better.
The American journalist Krista Tippett says that we're all fluent enough by now
in the language of catastrophe and dysfunction, and what's needed are more of
what she calls 'generative narratives.' This year, we found over 2,000 of those
kinds of stories, and shared them with tens of thousands of readers in a weekly
email. Not dog-on-a-surfboard, baby-survives-a-tornado stories, but genuine,
world changing stuff about how millions of lives are improving, about human
rights victories, diseases being eliminated, falling emissions, how vast
swathes of our planet are being protected and how entire species have been
saved.
We rounded up 400 of our favourites, and then crammed all of those again into
this final list of 66. We think many of them will surprise you, and a few might
just change the way you think about the world. It's been a difficult year, but
in so many ways and in so many places, we've made progress too."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
