We are desperately need more serious STEM students.
Part of the problem is that most policy makers tend to confuse words with reality.
Far too many lawmakers and regulators are educated only in law, or “public policy”, or administration, or worse (e.g., “studies”). It’s relatively easy to propose things that sound good on paper, but that doesn’t mean they are even possible in the real world of physics, engineering, existing infrastructure and human behavior.
We would be better of if more (e.g., any) of these people had backgrounds in the real world.