Steven Pinker’s “Better Angels of Our Nature” ,Įxcerpt. Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Joshua Goldstein, author of Winning the War on War, discuss. Two recent books argue the world has never seen so little war and violence. The Arc of Justice and the Long Run: Hope, History, and Unpredictability 12/13.īy David Roberts, Grist. (The Difficulty of) Looking at Climate Change 11/13. New installment: What Comes After Hope 5/13. It was written with a sense of how the expectable unravels, of how the future surprises us, often enough with offerings not of horror but of hope. It was written to welcome that “darkness” which seemed already to be enveloping us. Rebecca Solnit's “Acts of Hope,” was expanded into her book Hope in the Dark. Tipping Point: sometimes change can come very quickly in unpredictable ways and from very small beginnings.įlying Balloon House inspired by the movie Up.Īcts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage by Rebecca Solnit (see also her "explaining trilogy" and books below). Sent to your email each day from the Sierra Club. Includes segment on Samso Island, which is now carbon neutral after ten year effort.ĭoctors Without Borders has a new secret weapon against malnutrition, peanut butter! PBS Global Focus special segment on Denmark, which bought wind energy industry the US abandoned and is now the world leader. World map of visionary projects that provide hope (From Discovery and Amex) International successes from 2012 and some of the fun ones. Local success stories from Transitions Santa Cruz. Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes 5/12 Omaha teenager starts a program to donate ungrateful kids’ fruit to the hungry 9/12 Good News Network has stories like this one about rescuing deer. HuffPo has a Good News section, some of them green like beachgoers rescuing dolphins. The only responsible thing that you can do is say that individuals can make a difference and I will try, we will try, to make that. What is the alternative? If you are a pessimist, well, the most you can do, I suppose, is medicate yourself with the latest blockbuster and some sugar, salt, and fat that's being marketed to you. Wise words on activism as the best antidote to denial and despair. See also Awwwwwwwww for pictures of cute baby animals. See below for recent news stories (humorous ones here). What the World Could Be shows that our daunting challenges can be countered by simple decisions by all of us.ĭenmark Is the Happiest Country on Earth! You'll Never Guess Why. 10/19 see Datavisualization.ĭaily Ray of Hope from the Sierra Club (subscribe)Īltruism vs reductionist Darwinism. Trends and achievements we don’t always see because we’re fixated on the news. New from Information is Beautiful, Beautiful News charts all the amazing, encouraging, inspiring, uplifting things happening in the world. The best way to feel better is to do something such as creating art, (a special kind of art plus action and often humor is Culture Jamming), making something, saying something. Because there's so much bad news, and most of the trendlines are going the wrong direction, it's important remind ourselves of the fundamentals that support us, and to celebrate and build on successes.
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