Da ich diese Liste in Imgur gefunden habe und sie schön zeigt das 2016 nicht sooo kacke war.
Die Welt geht nicht unter, nur weil wir die guten Nachrichten manchmal übersehen.
We’re closer to having successful vaccines for lung and brain cancer.
· New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better)
· Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs with the part of the brain that deals with intent to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can just happen.
· Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps going down.
· Thanks to the ice bucket challenge the gene responsible for ALS has been found.
· A solar powered plan circumnavigated the world.
· Tiger numbers are growing.
· And manatees.
· And pandas.
· 500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.
· A retiree is launching a project to transport 80 endangered rhinos to an Australian reservation to save the animals from poaching
· The ozone layer is repairing itself and all the work we did to get rid of those aerosol chemicals was actually worth it.
· Pakistan has made strides toward outlawing honor killings.
· 70,000 Muslim clerics declared a fatwa against ISIS.
· California is now powering over 6 million homes with solar power, a record in the US
· Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in 24 hours.
· Apparently worldwide crime as a whole has drastically declined as a whole in the last couple of decades.
· Coffee consumption has been proved to help curtail cancer and suicide rates.
· We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention
· A new therapy developed in Israel could cure radiation sickness.
· The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions which required a super majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop).
· The Rabbinical Assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of transgender and non-conforming individuals.
· Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING
· Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.
· The Orlando Shakespeare Festival showed up with angel wings to block funeral-goers for the Orlando Pulse victims, view from anti-gay protesters
· We may have cured MS
· Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened
· Death by heart disease has decreased by 70% in the United States
· Two brothers saw color for the first time thanks to specially-designed glasses
· Pope Francis spoke against society’s obsession with physical beauty while dedicating Mass to the disabled community (love that dude)
· Portugal ran its entire nation solely on renewable energy for four days straight
· An Afghan teacher has been delivering books via bicycle to villages that lack schools
· 200 strangers attended the funeral of a homeless WW2 veteran with no family
· Bank firm pays for college tuition for the children of employees who died in the 9/11 attacks
Sorry für Copy and Paste
Für die komplette Liste:
http://imgur.com/gallery/7u5uW