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💛 Decline in suicides among young people. 🏭 EU sees decline in pollutant emissions. 🐢 Record-breaking sea turtle nesting. 🌊 Less plastic in the oceans than presumed.
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📅 Hopescrolling through August
Even I, who work every day with reading and writing optimistic news, feel a certain astonishment when I scroll through our news from the past month. There's so much positive happening.
These are real events, not just cute stories. Like scientists now racing to be the first to confirm a new force of nature(!), that a new tuberculosis vaccine is on the way, repeated breakthroughs for fusion power, and deforestation in the Amazon is decreasing.
Imagine if everyone scrolled through such a list of news headlines once a month. After a few months, it's impossible to resist; one has to realize that a lot of good things are happening.
Please share our summary of the optimistic news from August with friends and acquaintances and teach them to 'hopescroll'.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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💡 Hopescrolling: 24 optimistic news in August
24 fact-based optimistic news items that show how the world improved in August.
Fact-based optimistic news of the week
💛 Decline in suicides among young people in 2022
Suicides in the 10-to-24 age bracket decreased by 8.4 percent. The decline counters recent trends.
🏭 EU sees decline in pollutant emissions amid economic growth
Total emissions in EU Member States dropped in 2021, continuing the decline since 2005. During the same period, GDP grew by 47 percent.
🌊 Less plastic in the oceans than presumed, says Dutch researcher
Recent research indicates significantly less plastic in oceans than estimated. Around 3 million tons, instead of 50 to 300 million tons of plastic waste.
🐢 Record-breaking sea turtle nesting observed in northern Palm Beach County
Loggerhead Marinelife Center reports an all-time high in sea turtle nests. The increase from last year is 37 percent.
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