April 21 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏

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China plans to double its already massive clean energy supply by 2035

China's new climate pledge to the United Nations sets a target of 3,600 gigawatts of wind and solar power by 2035 — more than the entire electricity-generating capacity of the United States today, and roughly double what China has already built.

The commitment is woven into the country's next Five-Year Plan, which directs state banks, provinces, and manufacturers to move in the same direction.

Because China makes about 80% of the world's solar panels, every factory it scales up makes clean energy cheaper for buyers in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and everywhere else. That ripple effect is what makes this pledge matter far beyond one country's borders — it lowers the cost of a livable future for all of us.

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The ecosystem of change

Many of us believe meaningful progress on the greatest issues of our time relies on some superhuman hero taking extraordinary action. This is the heroic view of social change.

But in the real world, we are much better served by embracing the ecological view of social change instead.

Imagine a thriving, beautiful old-growth forest teeming with life and abundance, growing and evolving over centuries. No one individual or species "leads" the forest. No one element defines it. No individual or species is most responsible for its beauty and abundance. The forest is a confluence of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and more, each offering something unique and vital.

What makes the forest so rich and resilient is how these diverse elements interact with, balance, complement, and contrast with one another. Together, and only together, they transform into something more dynamic and resilient than the sum of their parts. They become an ecosystem. They become the forest.

Change in the real world is much like that forest. It is an ecosystem that relies on many disparate, often contrasting or even competing, actors each doing what they do best, each balancing and complementing the other.

Within this ecosystem, there are many roles to play. Activists. Artists. Healers. Connectors. And on and on. The forest has room for all of it, and needs all of it.

Some of us have big, visible roles. Some of us have small, invisible ones. Big is not better than small. They are all equally necessary and valid.

We play the roles that are ours to play, admire and appreciate others playing theirs, and watch in wonder as change emerges before our eyes, or not.

Ultimately, it's not really in our control. The ecosystem will collapse someday, maybe tomorrow, maybe centuries from now. But all we can ever do is our small part.

No "hero" was ever possible here. No hero was ever needed.

Peter Schulte Coach, writer, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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