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June 19, 2026 Good News for Humankind đYour daily spark of possibility â one real milestone for change from around the world. England records zero cervical cancer deaths in young women, crediting HPV vaccineHPV vaccination is proving it can do something remarkable: wipe out a cancer entirely in a generation. England's school-based program, now nearly two decades old, has driven cervical cancer deaths to zero among women in their early twenties â a cohort where dozens of deaths would otherwise have been expected. Researchers say this is only the beginning, with far greater impact ahead as vaccinated generations age. It's a powerful reminder that a single vaccine, delivered early enough, can make a whole category of suffering disappear â and that other countries have a clear, proven path to follow. More Good NewsAs a subscriber, you get exclusive access to the full database of 4,000+ stories of human innovation, discovery, peace, and liberation from throughout history.
Antihero Project đŠčYou've read the good news. Now, start making your own. Chapter 1-3: Polycrisis | The crisis withinThe polycrisis is the knot of crises facing humanity today, all intensifying and complicating one another. But it's not just that. Our internal experience of these crises is itself a real crisis. Living with the deeply troubling challenges of our world, with the growing possibility that civilization as we know it will collapse within our lifetime, elicits anxiety, despair, and existential dread within so many of us. The climate crisis alone is enough to do this. In a 2021 Lancet Planetary Health study of 10,000 young people aged 16â25 across ten countries, 75% said 'the future is frightening,' and 56% said they believe 'humanity is doomed.' The full polycrisis presumably weighs heavier still. This is not just an intellectual understanding of what might come to pass someday. This is a visceral experience of devastation, injustice, and suffering in the world right now. You feel it when you open your phone at night and see nothing but corruption, war, suffering, and climate chaos. You feel it when you see another image of a glacier melting into oblivion or an old-growth forest burning away in wildfire season. You feel it when you have to grimace through yet another senseless school shooting. You feel it when you read about the famine in Sudan alongside a story of the world's first trillionaire. Our existential crises become yet another factor intensifying and complicating our situation. They overwhelm and paralyze us. They erode our belief in humanity. They erode our belief that there's anything meaningful we can do about it as individuals. And therefore, they erode our actual capacity to do anything about it. And therefore, the tangible problems out in the world intensify, and our existential crises within us deepen. The polycrisis is not only happening out in the world. It is what is happening within you, right now. This is an excerpt from my upcoming book The Antihero's Journey: From Burnout to Real Contribution in Polycrisis Times. To read other excerpts, go here. âUnsubscribe | Preferences | Switch to weekly digest | Find me on Instagramâ Peter Schulte Coaching LLC |
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