Thought this might be interesting and even helpful for some. It’s been great for me since I discovered it a couple of weeks ago.
I’m not convinced our brains are sufficiently evolved to cope with the constant barrage of terrible news that keeps hitting us from every conceivable angle. I thought that even pre-pandemic, and the last 18 months hasn’t changed my mind.
Especially when there’s a sense that you can’t just look away right now, just for some respite.
So I happened across this site: “Positive News | Good journalism about good things - Positive News”
It’s a serious news site that doesn’t actually shy away from the world’s problems. What it does, is offer some balance and highlight the positive things that are emerging that may even be answers to our problems.
The mainstream media and social media know that the clicks come from bad news, disasters etc. I personally find it weighing on me a lot. So discovering that giant pandas are off the endangered list (which should have featured higher on the mainstream news than it did IMO, because that’s huge), tigers are making a comeback in certain places, rewilding in the UK is working, recycled plastics could be a solution to a genuinely concerning global sand shortage, and that scientists have just discovered bacteria that can eat car batteries, to name just a handful of stories.
Well, it’s nice to feel a finger trying to balance the scales against the mountain of awful that’s on the other side.
Hope it helps someone else.