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Bret does mention this at the top of the article.

This is aimed at people in the tech industry, and is more about what you can do with your career than at a hackathon. I’m not going to discuss policy and regulation, although they’re no less important than technological innovation. A good way to think about it, via Saul Griffith, is that it’s the role of technologists to create options for policy-makers.

It’s about technological options rather than policy or social ones. In regards to wartime type effort, there is that quote at the top of the article from Saul Griffith:

People say “this is a Manhattan Project, this an Apollo Project”. Sorry, those are science projects. Fusion is a Manhattan Project or an Apollo Project... The rest of this is more like retooling for World War II, except with everyone playing on the same team.

I do agree though. Being serious about climate change is much more “war” scale than “Apollo” or “Tesla” scale.