My megaproject ideas are mostly pretty standard. I'd build a high speed rail network across North America, and build and expand metro and regional rail systems in and around every city. I'd turn all cities and suburbs into fifteen-minute cities. I'd decommodify housing, and build ten million units of public/social/non-market housing, mostly three bedroom units. I'd link those last three policies together by building TODs around the new Metro and rail stops. And I'd build bicycle networks in every town and city and connect them to the TODs. I'd build bridges and walkways across skyscrapers. I'd put a bidet in every American toilet (uses less water than toilet paper apart from being more comfortable). Fiber internet in every home. A heat pump in every home. An induction stove in every kitchen. Phase out fossil fuels and power everything with Pumped Storage Hydropower and Geothermal. I'd make the US go Metric.
But my truly crazy, obsessive idea would be to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar. Or I'd purge all French influences from English.
I would do a massive irrigation and forestation project in the southwestern US. The accounts of the first settlers to arrive in that area of its climate differ pretty wildly from the climate we observe in it today, and I think that aiming to massively shrink the amount of partial desert is a geoengineering feat that is in reach with current technology and would have massive positive benefits to the region. We'll get the water by forcefully depopulating Las Vegas and moving those people to a less water inefficient area.
Nevada is actually the only water efficient area in the Southwest.
About 97-99% of their water usage gets recycled. Arizona and California are the biggest drain on Lake Mead and the Colorado river.
If you just built Nevada’s water recycling infrastructure in the rest of the Southwest, you probably wouldn’t need to relocate anyone. At least not for water scarcity reasons, it might be too late to do anything about dangerous temperatures, I don’t know the science there.
I've never heard about this, which I suppose is why you should talk to experts before making a Stalinist mandate about some drastic policy or other lmao.