Respectfully, I don't think it is an uncharitable reading at all. It is a response to a literal reading of the question "we just need to stop mining and drillin

Respectfully, I don't think it is an uncharitable reading at all. It is a response to a literal reading of the question "we just need to stop mining and drilling fossil fuels, how is this not obvious?". It is an obvious idea - and it's totally fine to put out obvious ideas! - but that's also why there are so many well known and top of mind reasons that it is not the solution to our predicament. To me, this is like a new student of algebra who thinks, "division is defined for all values of the denominator except zero, an obvious solution to that special case is that it should be defined for zero as well". It's an interesting idea for a student to have, but the reasons it doesn't work are very well known.