I’ve stopped watching the news. I just can’t do it anymore. It’s depressing, it’s discouraging, and it’s upsetting. While many news sources still offer up reasonably objective reporting, it seems that the vast majority of television news is so painfully doom and gloom that it paints the world as one declining into disaster.
So, this week, I want to show you a different side to the story. Because if you look past the rhetoric and start examining the facts and data about our world, one could argue that the progress the planet is experiencing right now is the most exciting and encouraging
So here they are. Ten facts about the world that should make you proud to inhabit this planet. (All data comes from
I hope all of this information gives you a good sense of what an incredibly positive trajectory the world is moving. It is so easy to get caught up in news about petty political squabbles. And it is equally easy to get hyper-focused on tragic events happening across the globe. While this world is certainly not perfect, and tremendous effort is required to solve the problems we still face- we have come a LONG way.
Be Blessed,
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