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Talk About Tough Decisions!

March 20th, 2026  |  deepshifttimes.com

Arriving:

Solar energy just became the cheapest source of electricity in human history. Not in Denmark. Not in California. In Texas. On cattle ranches. Built by people who've never once called themselves environmentalists. The invisible hand switched teams and didn't send a memo.

The world added more renewable energy capacity last year than in any previous year on record. Not a projection. Not a goal. A fact that happened while we were arguing about whether it was possible.

In the Netherlands, a city of 900,000 people just hit 90% circular economy targets — meaning almost nothing they use ends up as waste. The Dutch, it turns out, are very good at not drowning in their own garbage.

Departing:

Coal. Slowly, then suddenly — exactly the way Hemingway said bankruptcy happens. The last coal plant in the UK closed last year. Germany is ahead of schedule. Even China, the world's biggest builder of coal plants, quietly became the world's biggest builder of solar farms in the same decade.

The idea that going green means going broke. The numbers killed it. RIP.