At a time when the world has never seemed more dangerous and unpredictable, David McCandless draws from philosophy, spirituality, science, economics, and pop culture, to reveal positive trends and developments. A specialist in infographics, McCandless creates illustrations that illuminate the connections between facts. Among his surprising findings: almost 250 US cities have remained in the Paris Accord, there are more female CEOs in the world than ever before, Zika is disappearing from the Americas, and there may be a new method of converting donated blood to the crucial "O" negative type that can be used universally.