Donald Trump has wielded the full might of his administration to crush the progress of clean energy, which he has called a “scam” and “stupid”. But there are signs this assault is not going to plan.
In March, the US generated more of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind than it did via gas, the first time clean energy has surpassed the planet-heating fossil fuel for a full month nationally, according to data from the Ember thinktank.
While this was just one month, it follows a record 2025 for renewable energy. The pipeline of new power coming online in the US is overwhelmingly green this year, too, with 93% of all electricity capacity added in 2026 set to come from solar, wind and batteries. Just 7% will come from the fossil fuels that are dangerously overheating our world.
If you think economics is made up, we must have very different definitions of what economics is.
I’ll play ball. What’s your definition?
The study of resource management in systems.
What’s yours?
I think OP is confusing economics with the economy, the former is a field of research, the second is a construct theroetically based on the value of economic output but increasingly just a measure of the moods of rich people.
I don’t think I am. Studying car mechanics is a made-up field because humans invented cars. Studying sports medicine is a made-up field because humans invented sports. Economics can, and sometimes does, cover non-human systems, but is largely the study of emergent properties from human-created systems.
Ah so made-up =/= fake. There’s yer problem.
Yep. Made up, like constructed or invented. The idea that there are “rules” that seem to emerge from constructed systems that we don’t intend or expect is strange and wonderful to me.
The study of resource management in systems with an especial focus in systems of allocating scarce resources amongst humans.
not OP but I’d describe it as busy work for people who find science too complicated.