Today’s Solutions: February 22, 2026

The problem with change is it takes so damned long to get here. China built its incredible industrial might by using thousands of cheap laborers to build cheap fuel coal-powered generating plants. Then it reaped the whirlwind of air that was unsafe to breathe. Now it is focused on renewable energy. All those carbon spewing facilities belching crud into the skies over China led to smog in its cities so thick you could cut

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