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.
National program for graphic novels.
National program for more frogs
National program for the preservation of songbirds
I would pick the last one. Love those little guys so much. Hearing a cool bird keeps me alive sometimes.
Did you ever see the frog-maximizer post where frogs laid eggs in someone's back yard and they were like "these are my children I must protect them" so instead of 99.9% of the tadpoles and eggs getting eatenthey all survived and the person ended up frog-bombing the local ecosystem with like 77,777 frogs?
Found it - https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/15/experts-slam-man-who-claims-to-have-built-a-1-4million-strong-frog-army-16814976/
This is why ecological education is for everyone. Do not frog-Max!