I think the implied point is that each of the things you list has a long tail economically to the world, sure it's an improvement but the environment cost of ea

I think the implied point is that each of the things you list has a long tail economically to the world, sure it's an improvement but the environment cost of each of those developments is a canned kicked down the road, and we are down the road from a few of those developments now, and we don't have a solution. - whales - there are less whales now. - coal mining - green house gasses - oil drilling - oil spills and green house gasses - natural gas - release of methane gas from LNG fracking - lithium - who knows yet. but probably green house gasses and pollution from manufacture.