Saving free Europe's butt from Germany,  twice,  and China from Japan's war mongering, once,  drove the accelerated industrialization of the U.S.,  created the demand for R&D to improve life,  consumer demand.  We have paid a very high price, in treasure and lives.  70 years later,  we are still paying while "Yurp" and Asia rumble into the 21st century billowing smoke from whatever energy is cheap and available.  And we are asked to sacrifice so that they might continue.  

The "real estate developer" knows a bad deal,  and dumped it.  It is time for the talking heads and "smart" people to come up with a better idea.  Musk has good ideas,  except only the uber rich can afford to buy his product.  The idea that Oregon money go to far away places that are still allowed to do what we can't is insane.  But that is Kate Brown's carbon tax we will pay.  

Oh,  and what is the history of Earth,  our climate,  for the last 10 million or more years? Ice ages and interglacials,  cold to warm.