2017's POSITIVE Highlights

As 2017 nears its end, it's good to know about some changes that have happened to better humanity. Although these days, it seems like everywhere you look, there is news about how someone hurt someone or how some politician got trashed online. With these updates every five seconds, it seems that there is no hope for the future of mankind. But maybe...just maybe...there is a shred of hope that shows us that it isn't that hard to make this planet a more beautiful and safer place to live in. Here is a list of things that happened this year that turn the page onto another outlook for our world. 

1. A city in France banned all advertisements and replaced the signs with trees. 

2. Denmark became debt free this year after 183 years. 

3. Zimbabwe put a ban on the beating of all children throughout the country. 

4. Tons of New Yorkers scrubbed graffiti off subway cars to make their city a more beautiful place.

5. A high school student in Florida started a club so that no one would ever sit alone during lunchtime at school.

6. A 98-year-old woman wrote almost 7,000 letters of appreciation to men and women of the armed forces.

7. A homeless man that helped young survivors during the Manchester attack was given a home.

8. A Nationwide drought in the USA is over after a couple years.

9. When a flight was delayed, a person pulled out a guitar and people started singing and dancing instead of playing on their phones in silence and frustration. 

10. Rhiannon Giddens put on a music show for the prisoners at Sing Sing Prison.

11. Jackie Robinson got his own museum.

12. Two twins adopted from China were reunited in the USA.

13. Nature put on a beautiful show with the Solar Eclipse in August.

14. Doctors reversed a 2-year old girl's brain damage.

15. We are getting close to eliminating Polio.

16. We are getting close to achieving sustainable nuclear fusion.

17. Scientists are working on a sieve that could turn seawater into drinking water.

18. Hyper loops are being invented.

19. NASA released its research into the public for free.

20. Scientists are fighting back to antibiotic resistance. 

So maybe there is hope for us after all. Just maybe..

Information Credit:

1. www.theodysseyonline.com

2. Huffington Post Canada

3. Reader's Digest 

4. www.sciencealert.com