And when we're done transitioning and the problem of end of life batteries becomes more obvious we will live in a world with a battery problem (among many other

And when we're done transitioning and the problem of end of life batteries becomes more obvious we will live in a world with a battery problem (among many other unforeseen problems I am sure, that's just the blindingly obvious one right now). There's no free lunch, life is trade offs, fossil fuels have been an excellent trade off so far (just look at all the labor they freed up to pursue technological advancement in countries with institutions favorable to rewarding individual achievement). Because of the trade off nature of this situation your argument is entirely wrong. The main problem is climate changes when we add heat to it faster than we can dissipate it into space. The solution to the main problem is some combination of things that increases our ability to dissipate heat, which will include some amount of fossil fuel consumption decrease. There are secondary problems with the different green house gases that will dictate the optimal decrease mix but that's not that relevant to the main problem with your thought process. Fossil fuels were a glorious solution to the horror of the average man's existence, they continue to be a large benefit and could be a glorious solution again in the right circumstances so it serves no one to make a "fossil fuel bad!" religion out of it.