Today’s Solutions: August 22, 2026

Will Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change agreement tip the world into fiery catastrophe? The extraordinary unity of the rest of the world’s nations in tackling global warming, allied with the booming green economy, driven by plummeting renewable energy costs, are strong reasons to think not. A much more likely casualty of Trump’s choice is the US economy he claims to be protecting: America’s brilliance at innovation, investment

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