while I hesitate to say a Manhattan Project style effort will never happen, I’m sure none of us want it to happen. So before your head pops off: 1. people don’t tend to back such projects until there is an immediate, tangible threat and 2. federal government run/funded enterprises are unwieldy, go-to-work welfare programs so expecting governments to accomplish anything is wishful. If you don’t believe, try working in a federal program. Waste and fraud are endemic.
Bombs and war are things people understand. Climate change is much fuzzier. As much as u don’t like it, large fractions of the population r either not convinced that what they experience can not be attributed to variations in weather or they lack resources to live in a more environmentally conservative manner or they are more interested in carrying on in whatever way is most convenient to them (ie they don’t give a crap). Until those folks start dying or going hungry, they won’t change. That gets us back to govmint programs. Those only tend to b effective in dire circumstances. Climate change is not dire regardless of Greta T’s and AOC’s lamentations (trying to scare people with 12 yr expiry dates causes more harm to their cause than good).
In addition, as long as Pelosi, AOC, etc talk about steering climate change funds to social welfare programs that only address immediate lifestyle conditions that have nothing to do with climate, then a large fraction of the population won’t take climate change as a serious threat. To them, the misdirection of funds looks more like a Ponzi scheme.
