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Global Economy $100 trillion 

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-trillion-global-economy

Global Economy $94 trillion
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-94-trillion-world-economy-in-one-chart/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-20-cities-ultra-wealthy/?fbclid=IwAR1R9_GgciADY-cx2QDRPWxJfDv4kUKtn4VldTpW0Ebjf0F8f7zgFNExZp4&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

US Cities with highest economic output

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/3d-map-the-u-s-cities-with-the-highest-economic-output/

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-economy-top-100-trillion-2022-first-time-report-2021-12-26/?fbclid=IwAR0f-0BcNckOdo94wTDPaIa89Ab4yjMdwlwIThBciVZa35fxbu9AlRh4Olw

G7 $600 billion infrastructure program

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/26/1107701371/biden-announced-a-600-billion-global-infrastructure-program-to-counter-chinas-cl?fbclid=IwAR33dvl34WlLz3RISCmJZy6dM830eEalw9Nq8xx5_DGGY6sAiRzQhHTbslw&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Benefits of free trade
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/global-trade-series-the-benefits-of-free-trade/?fbclid=IwAR1XtZWh6ysk5STnnWfSoi6hPxak6aWaVJnzZWihuXbKKy3JBVqoAMeVnVM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

RCEP - Asian Free Trade Agreement
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rcep-explained-the-worlds-biggest-trading-bloc-will-soon-be-in-asia-pacific/?fbclid=IwAR2YMawn8kkp532H9bpNREszm7OvXko6Nx4iFUoHbB6bnQ922Go26bzv6pA&mibextid=Zxz2cZ


Sovereign wealth fund
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-worlds-largest-sovereign-wealth-funds

How much gold is in the world

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/chart-how-much-gold-is-in-the-world

CNBC New Millionaires created in US 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/03/17/million-new-millionaires-were-created-in-us-last-year-report-says.html?fbclid=IwAR0T8Nma3dtf5az4KPvCbbAnlgL-95tFi8Jgga4YW4_laf6DYidgozjK-l0

U.S. household wealth rebounded to $147.7 trillion

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-household-wealth-rebounded-1477-trillion-4th-quarter-2023-03-09/#:~:text=Household%20net%20worth%20rose%202,dropped%20by%20about%20%24100%20billion.

Great Wealth Transfer $129 trillion 

https://fortune.com/2023/10/28/great-wealth-transfer-baby-boomers-bank-of-america-millennials-government-policy/amp/

Americans gave $145 billion to charity

https://www.christianpost.com/news/scripture-engaged-americans-gave-145-billion-to-charity-in-2021-report.html?fbclid=IwAR2NLdjP3ryJSAf8JiFzSjeWZcW5BJxJOzEmYGXml2ngbfNjFy4HdFuGVh8

Giving USA 2021: In a year of unprecedented events and challenges, charitable giving reached a record $471.44 billion

https://philanthropynetwork.org/news/giving-usa-2021-year-unprecedented-events-and-challenges-charitable-giving-reached-record-47144?fbclid=IwAR2us275D-aXUZCZ3STAOZUjYo3ON_Gm4CBfd41YfltmLikb7TQlSv89gCY

Forbes top charities 

https://www.forbes.com/lists/top-charities/?sh=6dacd9465f50&fbclid=IwAR0f5qMkL63tSmhtB5gbLT3Q9lrgYKd_eClSMhnVNWLhO4CJCWQtQVv_g8

Compassion cross $1 billion milestone

https://gazette.com/life/compassion-international-crosses-1-billion-milestone/article_4131990a-187b-11eb-9f03-5ff71a170a62.amp.html

Global citizen festival raises $2.4 billion for poverty

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2022-global-citizen-festival-campaign-culminates-in-2-4-billion-to-end-extreme-poverty-301632607.html

Rip medical debt 

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/15/1093769295/this-groups-wiped-out-6-7-billion-in-medical-debt-and-its-just-getting-started

Student loan debt abolition 

https://debtcollective.org/what-we-do/debt-abolition/

Medical debt abolition 

https://ripmedicaldebt.org

United Way 211

https://www.unitedway.org/our-impact/featured-programs/2-1-1?fbclid=IwAR3uzLikhyKfwshkZRjtSzQvUmh7tUZUdltNqnxODc4oCa6mKuxWZgVb-P0#

Nobel peace prize

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/09/world/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2020-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3AqGthEjBphfgqbczxqR4fANTh-_bFzvVeSsED0lktOb8Nz-fsD6_7Ztg&fs=e&s=cl

Matrix of liberty

https://matrixofliberty.com/?fbclid=IwAR2_6f90VyCSQdFJ0N4hnhDQmkdmpuRsc5zw5w45KYoqYUuemB8JRp1rsDI&fs=e&s=cl

Major religions of the world mapped 

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-major-religions-of-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR08axB8wfW_5zNASUigVjP8Kah41J_AKRMv86ku-HEbBU9dmNlMVcXKP30

Global Christianity 

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/?fbclid=IwAR08DvxUoJBrE6nST-ci_3shh4q7aVPmbt4xynUZqPkwRx80cYnT84m8Mno&fs=e&s=cl

Wycliffe Bible translators 

https://wycliffeassociates.org/press-releases/wycliffe-associates-sees-record-number-of-completed-bible-translations-in-2020/?fbclid=IwAR1dOjnvCTHXlujY--PuDDqTX3W6nRG4GytR_D_zjTJ-RHrek37VT0CKZDo&fs=e&s=cl

300 million bibles distributed 

https://evangelicalfocus.com/culture/7570/over-300-million-bible-portions-distributed-worldwide-in-2019?fbclid=IwAR0LkEAPv9sXHUVOS0u-hYE8tFhTV5ngSO_O7OeRR3JEXBqgPz45466MyJM&fs=e&s=cl

Vox good news in charts world is getting better

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news?fbclid=IwAR09jH2iTtkrxtVt2hXertFY3bogatz_Z4COqVfSHp0TmVqkb_cepmBJ2A4

World is getting better

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/04/50-ways-the-world-is-getting-better/

World is getting better 

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/6-charts-show-world-improving

Time 2019 advances

https://time.com/5754155/global-advances-2019/?fbclid=IwAR27JF2X-yNN4s9micXtQGky8TRpSEzbRXcjIZ51mE1AKdbTrbFeMY8J5EI

World economic forum 50 life saving breakthroughs 

These discoveries saved billions of lives

Vaccines - 1B

Green revolution - 1B

Blood transfusions - 1B

Synthetic fertilization - 1B

Toilets - 1B

Pasteurization - 250M

Antibiotics - 200M

Water chlorination- 175M

Bifurcated needle - 130M

Anesthesia - 50M

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/the-50-most-important-life-saving-breakthroughs-in-history?fbclid=IwAR1wC0tGI-elPKLpFjRnMfFhfeTniFigYl4Vg3KgcV6M9E5yNDS7i7QiD4sSee


Time human genome sequenced
https://time.com/6163452/human-genome-fully-sequenced/

Earth bio genome project

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220117165548.htm?fbclid=IwAR36ltPsoQnKNYYp9ZsRla8Lu7b-eDWcm1lak0VlX9jdovHoQQ3nz3awOd4&fs=e&s=cl

Frontier exascale super computer

https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/05/30/the-final-frontier-us-has-its-first-exascale-supercomputer/

Internet record 1 petabyte per second

https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/1-petabit-per-second-data-transmission/

Optical frequency comb

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a41846822/optical-frequency-comb-chip-sets-internet-speed-record/?fbclid=IwAR1nSQtLrhAfjAdowgokMQKxoRUbjLc2nOkMytyctou61s8d9RSsO6VGpx0&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Internet record speed

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/one-chip-transmits-the-entire-internets-traffic-in-a-second/

IBM quantum computer

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-promises-a-4000-qubit-quantum-computer-by-2025-heres-what-it-means/?fbclid=IwAR3I7M88QUXrGAVVAd06bDCKh0U_2kLMTBcL8KJxTB0-F-Rir6339ynhdVA&fs=e&s=cl

Earth Natural Infrastructure worth $33 quadrillion 

https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/05/06/2224758/0/en/The-value-of-Earth-s-natural-infrastructure-falls-to-33-quadrillion-says-environmental-study.html

Psyche 16 - $10,000 quadrillion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/29/metal-asteroid-psyche-nasa-hubble-images/6069223002/

Psyche 16 - $10,000 quadrillion

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/in-depth/?fbclid=IwAR2q-K-8jEo1dYAaaQM2664yOoaJ8dNw61uuGx3TMbG9v3NRjL9UoqEoLPI&fs=e&s=cl

Asteroid mining

https://amp.interestingengineering.com/asteroid-mining-to-shape-the-future-of-our-wealth

Asteroid mining

https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-an-asteroid-worth-4863379

Cancri 55 - 26.9 Nonillion 

https://www.christianpost.com/amp/diamond-planet-found-55-cancri-e-worth-26-9-nonillion-photo.html?fbclid=IwAR0dSHlJmXbngiWzDSyU5LBRlmXkwV6dD8Bt4JaNsLpsyfu5Qb5KKStTNg8&fs=e&s=cl
Richest places in the universe
https://www.cnbc.com/2011/11/08/The-Richest-Places-In-The-Universe.html

Water reservoir in space

https://www.zmescience.com/space/enormous-water-reservoir-found-in-space-is-bigger-than-140-trillion-earth-oceans/

400K Galaxy - Siena Galaxy Altas

https://www.wionews.com/science/astronomers-unveiled-galactic-atlas-of-detailed-400000-galaxies-near-milky-way-648677/amp

Spaceports 

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-spaceports-mapped/

There's a bacterium that can absorb compounds rich in toxic metals and extract gold from them, producing tiny gold nuggets.  The bacterium in question is called Cupriavidus metallidurans and lives in soil rich in toxic elements.  Gold Is A Byproduct Of Heavy Metal Metabolism In Cupriavidus metallidurans.  Its ability to detoxify gold complexes by transforming them into metallic gold was discovered in 2009. Geobiological Cycling of Gold:  Cupriavidus metallidurans, Delftia acidovorans and Salmonella typhimurium, have developed biochemical responses to deal with highly toxic gold complexes.  Cupriavidus metallidurans was shown to survive in various mesophilic metal-contaminated environments such as mining sites for gold, copper and zinc because it possesses an abundance of transition metal efflux systems and other heavy metal resistance determinants 

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0904583106

General Electric created the first batch of lab created diamonds in 1954.

https://www.withclarity.com/blogs/diamond/history-of-lab-grown-diamonds#:~:text=Resources%20say%2C%20General%20Electric%20(GE,man%20made%20diamonds%20became%20accessible.

Civilization runs on steel, plastic, cement, ammonia 

https://reason.com/2022/05/25/civilization-runs-on-ammonia-plastic-steel-and-cement-for-now/?amp&fbclid=IwAR3VC7c7UTP3_XsavNZ_goCoapf4TJyaXh9yEXsS32DpsMr1QSUKnhS6N7Q&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Most sustainable trade policies

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-asian-economies-have-the-most-sustainable-trade-policies/

Nuclear fusion ignition second time

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-scientists-repeat-fusion-power-breakthrough-ft-2023-08-06/#:~:text=Scientists%20at%20the%20California%2Dbased,being%20analyzed%2C%20the%20spokesperson%20added.