I was about to post this in the Hangout, but then I thought it would be political, and some of the items on here have a liberal lens in terms of what's good, so I decided it could be in D&D. Which of these 99 are your favorites? My personal faves that seem to be good news no matter your political team jersey: 7. New research showed that acid pollution in the atmosphere is now almost back to the level that it was before it started with industrialisation in the 1930s. 10. The World Health Organisation released a report showing that, since the year 2000, global malaria deaths have declined by 60%. 12. A new study from the world’s leading health journal reported that the number of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth has almost halved since 1990. 17. Life expectancy in Africa has increased by 9.4 years since 2000, thanks to improvements in child survival, progress in malaria control and expanded access to ARVs. 23. The proportion of older US adults with dementia, including Alzheimer’s declined from 11.6% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2012, a decrease of about a million people. 24. The number of cigarette smokers in the US dropped by 8.6 million since 2005. (Nothing against smoking, per se, but it's great news for health in this country and total medical costs to the system.) 25. 93% of kids around the world learned to read and write this year. That’s the highest proportion in human history. 27. World hunger reached its lowest point in 25 years. 32. Homelessness in the United States declined by 35% since 2007... 43. Global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels did not grow at all in 2016. It’s the third year in a row emissions have flatlined. 93. 2015 was America’s most generous year ever, with charitable donations from individuals, estates, foundations and corporations reaching record highs. 2016 is on track to be even bigger.
That's not funny at all now we have 4yrs of this so called swamp drainer and a congress that dismantled the oversight committee.
We'll see, he'd have a hard time being as bad a president as Obama was, but he's a total idiot so maybe he's up to the challenge. Either way, geting rid of Obama is a good thing.
I think most presidents who don't have to deal with a historic liquidity/financial crisis would look better relative to Obama.
Well yeah, I know that plenty of people still get down on their knees and fellate him just for waking up in the morning, but he was a terrible president that helped divide the country and push those sides further and further apart while getting nothing positive accomplished AND totally blundering foreign policy. I know that anyone left of center isn't allowed to admit it though, so I don't really expect them to.
It's not "acting" like anything, it's just what the evidence supports. The only real positive during his time in office was what the conservative SCOTUS did when the legalized gay marriage. Pretty much everything else was negative. The national debt literally doubled and we had nothing to show for it other than an Obamacare program that is already collapsing due to it being horribly short sighted.
It's too funny. They can't even argue about anything related to the content of the article or the OP -- it's just the same old bullcrap. Suit themselves. You didn't exactly pick one of the 99 either, but at least your addition was excellent.
61. ISIS quietly started preparing its followers for the eventual collapse of the caliphate it proclaimed with great fanfare two years ago. New Yorker 67. Good science and simple economics have started a reversal in overfishing in the United States. New York Times 70. In July, more than 800,000 volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in one day. The country is planning on reforesting 12% of its land. National Geographic 93. 2015 was America’s most generous year ever, with charitable donations from individuals, estates, foundations and corporations reaching record highs. 2016 is on track to be even bigger. Associated Press 94. In 2016, charitable giving in China rose to $15 billion, a 10 fold increase from just a decade ago Bloomberg 101. Election is over. 102. Obama last year - yea, hopefully we don't have Bobby talking about him much longer. Maybe. 110. All the amazing advancements in medicine, brain, mind... and for a brief moment, the god particle.
He's done plenty of good things but I'm not going to waste my time discussing them. I think it's because we know you are right of center so you are set in your opinion of him.
38. The United States now feeds healthy lunches to more than 30 million children, is about to ban trans fats, and has enacted one of the biggest overhauls of nutrition labels in decades. 72. McDonalds announced it would be removing corn syrup from its hamburger buns and removed antibiotics from its chicken months ahead of schedule. This is a start in the right direction. Obesity levels have been rising steadily for decades in this country but we've seen a 43% drop in childhood obesity in the last decade, so that's a positive sign for the future. I don't think anyone wants health care costs to rise much more than they are now, except maybe Martin Shkreli . Only through lifestyle changes, better information, and access to healthier choices will this new generation not be the big fatasses we were. I'll also add: 111. Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to pass a soda tax. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/16/philadelphia-is-first-major-us-city-with-soda-tax.html I hope this trend continues.
Great post B-Bob 8. In 2012, the US and Mexico embarked on an unprecedented binational project to revive the Colorado River. By 2016, the results had astonished everyone. Audubon 43. Global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels did not grow at all in 2016. It’s the third year in a row emissions have flatlined. Scientific American 71. Later that month, Israel revealed that it now makes 55% of its freshwater. That means that one of the driest countries on earth now has more water than it needs. Ensia Desalination used to be an expensive energy hog, but the kind of advanced technologies being employed at Sorek have been a game changer. Water produced by desalination costs just a third of what it did in the 1990s. Sorek can produce a thousand liters of drinking water for 58 cents. Israeli households pay about US$30 a month for their water — similar to households in most U.S. cities, and far less than Las Vegas (US$47) or Los Angeles (US$58). The International Desalination Association claims that 300 million people get water from desalination, and that number is quickly rising. IDE, the Israeli company that built Ashkelon, Hadera and Sorek, recently finished the Carlsbad desalination plant in Southern California, a close cousin of its Israel plants, and it has many more in the works. Worldwide, the equivalent of six additional Sorek plants are coming online every year. The desalination era is here.
Calm down bud. I figured lumping us all in one basket was a mistake that you would lean away from. How is this even possible? 25. 93% of kids around the world learned to read and write this year. That’s the highest proportion in human history.
