It was a tale of two years – the best of times and the worst of times. But not everything went wrong – from Mata’s 1% to orangutans,we ogle at the goodHow was it for you? A bit grim? Many people will be eager to see the back of 2017, the year of Trump, or Twitter,terrorism, Yemen, or Libya and the plight of the Rohingya,as well as environmental degradation and nearly daily doomsday warnings about the multiplying threats to sustainable life on soil.
But the large, bold headlines order only half the account – perhaps not even that much. Away from the hysteria of daily news, or it is possible to discern progress,joy, breakthroughs and that rarest commodity of all: optimism. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk