When you watch the news, it's easy to believe everything is getting worse.
It's not.
Since it’s that time of year, here are 39 good news stories that you didn’t hear about in 2023.
Let’s go 🧵
1. More girls are getting an education
This year, UNICEF reported there are 50 million more girls in school compared to just ten years ago. Girls are also graduating at higher levels, with 89% completing primary school and 61% completing high school.
Education for the win!
2. More Oceans are Being Protected
This year, countries committed more than $20 billion in funding towards ocean conservation. And over a million square kilometers of ocean was formally protected off the coasts of Kenya, Ireland, Australia, Panama, Chile, and Papua New Guinea.
Everyone knows that the media is built on negativity. Without it, they wouldn’t exist.
We’ve been saying for years that their negativity is actually killing us. To prove it, we did a small experiment.
The results were disturbing.
A Goodable Thread 🧵
We wanted to see just how addicted the world’s top news sites are to negativity, so we ran an audit. We focused on only the biggest news sites, which included:
Apple
Google
Yahoo
ABC
CNN
Together, they have over a billion visitors per day.
Here’s what we found 👇🏼
Of the top 30 news stories on Apple, only two were about positive things in the world.
Just two.
Their top headlines were about flooding and Ukraine. It got so depressing we had to stop.