He's the richest man in the world, are you really worried that he's being treated unfairly? If he wants people to say nice things about him, he could hire entir

He's the richest man in the world, are you really worried that he's being treated unfairly? If he wants people to say nice things about him, he could hire entire countries to act as sockpuppets. Or, like, he could work on becoming a better person. I also think that, while it's possible he genuinely set out to combat climate change, with what we know about him and his projects today, I think his efforts in that department have been ineffective, or even counterproductive. First of all, SpaceX is making climate change worse. Their rockets spend a great deal of energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels, polluting parts of the atmosphere that airplanes can't reach. Airplanes are very bad for the environment and we need to drastically reduce their use to avoid climate disaster. Rockets are worse. Their only advantage over airplanes is that there are far fewer of them launching less often, but SpaceX is working to change that. Counterproductive. (For an alternative that could theoretically use renewable energy, I'm optimistic about Spinlaunch.) In retrospect, it's clear that the Hyperloop is an impractical boondoggle intended to sabotage real world high speed rail projects that might reduce the need for Teslas. Increasing the use of public transit and reducing airplanes and cars is crucial to addressing the climate crisis. Counterproductive. The Boring Company could be developing cool tech, but it's being used to move Teslas through tunnels instead of trains, which is ludicrously inefficient. Counterproductive. Tesla itself sounded like a good idea at first, and certainly cars need to be electrified to reduce emissions. Unfortunately, simply replacing every fossil fuel car on the road with an electric car would be woefully insufficient to address the climate crisis. They just use too much energy, require too many batteries, and encourage sprawl at a time when we need density to create walkable neighborhoods friendly to transit. (An alternative I love is velomobiles, but most Americans have never even seen one. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobil... ) Like many incremental solutions at this late date where we need radical change, this could end up being counterproductive, especially if the world's richest man applies pressure to maintain our society's car dependency, which as I've suggested above, I believe he has. I could go on about Elon's swing towards the right wing (which in the USA means supporting climate change deniers), etc., but this comment is already too long. TL;DR: I think history may view Elon as sabotaging climate action more than he's helped it.