A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

1. Quintuple clean energy and climate-related R&D over the next decade. Direct public investment in research and development is one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change, but governments aren’t doing nearly enough of it. In total, government funding for clean energy R&D amounts to about $22 billion per year, only aroun

generated $141 in returns to the U.S. economy.2 By the same token, we need governments to commit to funding mega-scale projects (in the range of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars) that can advance the science of clean energy—especially in the areas I listed above.

Department of Defense buys advanced low-emissions fuels and materials; the National Science Foundation funds research; the Department of Transportation…

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