Good points!

Isn’t it possible though, that a vertical supply chain could be set up to eventually be based solely on renewable energy? Wouldn’t that have been like telling Henry Ford not to bother with this auto silliness, because your workers get to the line by trolley and parts are shipped in by train?

As for the lag? No time like the present, right? All the more reason to keep going, because serious efforts to battle climate change didn’t start until after that point. China is making considerable gains right now, by investing, both in resources and funds for those it makes unemployed as a result of shutting down coal. We in America should be ashamed.

I have not previously heard that mining for lithium involves clear-cutting forest, do you have a fact-checked source? It is a great point, though. Some efforts do seem contradictory. One hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.