Good News Stories In 2021
Do you sometimes avoid 'the news'!? Perhaps you've had an overload of 'bad' stories and just decide to tune out. At Jeko we're certainly guilty of switching off as necessary. Not that we're putting our heads in the sand - but bad news doesn't exactly get us into a positive mindset. That's why we're always sharing the vibes from our friends at Future Crunch. Here's one of our favourites! It's a yearly rap reporting on all the good stuff.
The Good News stories you probably didn't hear about in 2021 - words by Angus Hervey for Future Crunch
If you were asked to list the top global news stories of 2021, off the top of your head, what would they be? Chances are you’d come up with some combination of COVID-19, economic woes, political conflict, Afghanistan, natural disasters, and maybe some space billionaires and Free Britney thrown in for good measure. Oh, and don’t forget the Suez Canal!
What’s probably missing from your list is any good news, which seems pretty strange. Even in the midst of a global pandemic, surely a few positive things happened this year? Researchers would say it’s because of our negativity bias — we’re wired, apparently, to pay attention to and remember things that are shocking or scary. What if there’s a simpler explanation though?
What if the reason we can’t remember any good news is because nobody reported it in the first place?
For the past several years, we’ve been putting that idea to the test, seeing whether it’s possible to carve out a tiny little corner of the internet dedicated exclusively to stories of progress. Not fluffy, feel good stories, but big stories of real, lasting change for people and the planet. Over time, we’ve gotten better at digging them up and this year, managed to find hundreds. Boiling them down to just 99 was a struggle, but we got there in the end, with only a tiny bit of cheating.
We hope you enjoy the list, and while you’re reading perhaps ask yourself: why do so many of these stories come as a surprise? The answer, we think you’ll find, is pretty simple. They never appeared on your screen or in your newspaper at all.
Click on the link below to read about the 99 good news stories you probably didnt hear about in 2021!