Ah yes, instead of having people do things that they can do within a year lets not do any of those things until somebody spends decades building enough power pl

Ah yes, instead of having people do things that they can do within a year lets not do any of those things until somebody spends decades building enough power plants to replace all of our current ones. You should look up Critical Path [1]. If you want to go things done faster, creating a long critical path is not a good idea. Of course, if you want the status quo to stay the same it's a great idea. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method