• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Can you bring me some of that “existential wonder” feeling, you know, the opposite of existential dread? I’ve been having a bit of a surplus of the latter, if anyone wants any…

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      Granted, please study this scroll (website): https://www.gapminder.org/

      (BEFORE YOU ENTER THAT WEBSITE READ THIS: I know people are incredibly pessimistic about good news on lemmy, but please know that the linked website was created by Hans Rosling (RIP), his family and the foundation they created to carry on his work. Hans Rosling was a swedish physician and an academic who wrote “Factfulness” (that I highly recommend to everyone, even though it was pre-corona pandemic) and who believed in a better world enough to dedicate his life to make it better)