2023
Good News
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.