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The quote argues that clean energy needs a level of effort, focus, and coordination comparable to major historical scientific programs. It suggests the challenge is large enough to require sustained national or international commitment. The comparison is meant to underline urgency and ambition.
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Originally said in English.
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About Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He served as the fifteenth Astronomer Royal from 1995 to 2025, was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012, and led the Royal Society as president from 2005 to 2010. His work has been recognised with several physics honours, including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2024 for fundamental contributions to high-energy astrophysics, galaxies and structure formation, and cosmology. He is known for writing and speaking about the universe at its largest scales, from the growth of galaxies to the forces that shape cosmic structure.
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