BEAUTIFUL NEWS: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats

From the Information is Beautiful author and website is a stunning example of graphic designs pulling together complex information into beautiful graphics and something very uplifting. Which are the happiest countries in the world? According to a 2020 report the UAE, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland. Life expectancy has shot up 38% between 1960 and 2018. There are now 85% of countries covered with domestic violence laws, where there were no such laws in 1970. Leaf area, meat substitutes, same-sex unions (where legal), global literacy, hundreds of new vaccines in the pipeline, women in Parliament around the world, 100 towns and cities now getting most of their energy from renewables like Bogotá, Montreal, Porto and Auckland, some of the poorest nations which are the most generous and Yay Africa! The new African Union passport allows visa free travel between 55 countries. Drones have revolutionised medical deliveries in Rwanda, oil spills have decreased, suicide is at its lowest rate for 46 years in Japan, there are renewable energy superstars, routes for solving plastics, land preservation, unendangered animals, a new device to clean plastic from our seas, and can next-gen nuclear energy get us to carbon zero? Positive, beautiful, statistics and research and data cuts through gloomy news and dark nights. Big bold colourful pages and graphics throughout, 256pp, 19.5 x 25.2cm.
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