The U.S. WW2 precedent for emergency climate mobilization by Lester Brown in his 2008 Aspen presentation.

Lester Brown is a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C.

BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_R._Brown