The good news you might have missed | Angus Hervey

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Whether or not you believe the world is doomed might depend on where you get your news, says journalist Angus Hervey. He delivers stories of progress that mainstream media organizations missed last year — from advances in clean energy to declining rates of extreme poverty, crime and disease — and suggests we should pay more attention to such occurrences. "If we want more people to devote themselves to the task of making progress, then maybe we should be telling more people that it's possible to make progress," says Hervey.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:09.0	You're listening to TED Talks daily where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.0	Coming up is some good news.
0:19.0	Actually, you're about to hear a lot of good news.
0:22.0	In 2023, so many harmful indicators actually declined.
0:27.0	It's easy to forget these positives when we're seeing and hearing so many negative headlines all the time.
0:32.0	So in his talk, Fix the news founder Angus Hervey
0:35.2	helps us pay attention to the good
0:37.6	to help us get through our daily grinds.
0:40.3	That's coming up after a short break.
0:44.0	It's easy to know you want to make a change in your life, but it is hard to actually do it.
0:49.0	How to be a better human from Ted is a podcast for when self-help feels too daunting or maybe even
0:54.2	unrealistic or just not for you. I'm Chris Duffy the host of How to Be a
0:58.0	Better Human and trust me I do not have it all figured out. But join me as I talk to experts about actually attainable ways
1:04.8	we can try to improve our lives. Whether it's facing fears, setting boundaries,
1:09.5	cleaning your house without feeling like a failure or all sorts of other topics.
1:14.4	Find how to be a better human wherever you get your podcasts.
1:18.5	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
1:21.8	The world feels scary right now. The planet heats, the clock ticks, the red lines
1:30.3	climb. Death stalks the fields of Ukraine and the streets of Gaza, famine looms in Sudan.
1:39.7	And in the Middle East the drums of war sound louder by the day.
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