After all, it's not even that hard or costly in comparison. Total expected lifetime cost of the F-35 program [1]: 1.5T$ Expected cost of shifting the US to 10

After all, it's not even that hard or costly in comparison. Total expected lifetime cost of the F-35 program [1]: 1.5T$ Expected cost of shifting the US to 100% renewables [2]: 4.5T$ (note these estimates are probably at least double that of the real costs in light of the rapidly dropping deployment costs since) Environmental cost of not doing it: Projected at 1.5T$ for the US by 2050, so it's almost self financing. This is not even about serious economic restraint, it's literally just about having a frickin' fighter or not. Note the Apollo program was a bargain compared to both at just 280B$... "We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too." [1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/f35-fighter-jet-pentagon/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/f35-fighter-jet-pe... [2] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/shifting-u-s-to-100-percent-renewables-would-cost-4-5-trillion-analysis-finds https://e360.yale.edu/digest/shifting-u-s-to-100-percent-ren...