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How about if I'm a globalist neoliberal who's also an environmentalist? "Fostering domestic capability" is nice, let's do that by investing in basic research, not by putting artificial barriers around us.

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Actually, the US has an entity called the Department of Energy that does foster solar research. [1] If you're not US based, you may not know about this.

[1] https://energy.gov/science-innovation/energy-sources/renewab...

OK, so if that's really what we're interested in, increase its funding. Don't artificially slow the rollout of solar panels with trade barriers.

The atmosphere won't wait for us.

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