[Shaun @ Tru6]

OK so I watched the whole thing and even went back and skipped through it a bit to take some notes. This guy is a f'ing moron. The smug smarmy millennialness of him doesn't help. And he jumps around and conflates meaningless, not well thought out concepts.

I do not have time for a well-constructed rebuttal to the video but here are some thoughts.

First, the thing that struck me the most was his conclusion is in direct contrast for his reasons why electric cars won't work. He contradicts himself to the highest order. Why won't electric vehicles work? The infrastructure to support them is too big of a challenge.

That's ridiculous of course. It's just building infrastructure. In fact CHina has 1.419 million public EV charging stations. Let me say that again. China has 1,419,000 (that's million) public charging stations, NOW. Not 10 years from now. They have them now. Now.

By the way there are varying numbers on this. Some sources say 2.2 million. So whatever. Yeah, building out an EV charging infrastructure is WAAAAAAAYYYYYY to hard and will take decades.

What's funny and I actually laughed at his conclusion is that we are the problem and we have to change and we can't use technology to change. I have no words for the latter. The former, we have to change, that was hysterical.

Why?

He thinks building infrastructure is too difficult. But he wants people to change how they interact with the world IN THEIR CURRENT ENVIRONMENT BUILT ON DRIVING AROUND. So TWO things there.

First, he wants to change human behavior. That's pretty easy. I mean when 100s of thousands of people were dying from a virus everyone, and I mean everyone, to the last man, put on a mask and proudly wore it to protect his fellow citizen.

So yes, modifying human behavior, especially of humans who don't believe in climate change, is CAKE.

But then, you've modified your behavior but you live in an infrastructure designed around moving around by car, at least here in the U.S. More on that later. So now it's easier to change how people live and where they live and how they move around. OK, moving on.

It is a little ironic that he uses an apartment complex in Europe to show all these cars there that people need to use to go to work and such but dollars to donuts, he was filming at 2PM on a Tuesday when everyone was at work. Why? Because the majority of people in cities in Europe use their EXCELLENT MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS to go to work. Americans drive 14000 miles a year. Europeans drive 7000. Why the difference? Do Europeans only drive to work accounting for that 7000 and then never touch their cars at night or on weekends? Of course that's the answer.

So that bring us to:
Americans: 14K
Europeans: 7K
Japan: 3.8K
India: 7.5K
China: 7K

So yes, we drive more that anyone in the world and we should change our behavior but we DON'T HAVE EXCELLENT MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS so we don't use them to go to work. So we can either build an EV infrastructure of charging stations or create a whole new mass transit system in every city above 100K. That's easy and cheap, right? I mean compared to installing charging stations. Cake.

And why the **** does he even go into how much time it takes to charge your car when you charge it at home and at work. Just so he can tee up how hard it will be create charging stations at apartment complexes. What a waste of time. And you get to install some solar on the tops of buildings to help. Every little bit helps.

What's most annoying about him is his position that because no magic silver bullet solution has fallen from the sky, we just say **** it and keep going full steam ahead with no thought to the future or the very nature of progress is incrementalism which, wait for it, sometimes creates magic bullets either through happy accidents or through the continuous process of scientific achievement. His absolutely moronic 1930 hp to 2018 hp illustration should have told anyone watching this that he's just getting you to click so he can get another surf shark payment. The complexity of that comparison is way beyond the scope of this discussion taking government regulations in terms of gas mileage into account more than anything.

And then we get to power plants and mining for lithium. It's been only a decade since we've taken renewable energy seriously. There is tremendous room for growth. Yes, coal sucks. And Chinese and Indian coal sucks more. But it's easier to clean coal plants than millions of cars. Wind and solar are just getting going. And again, there's money to be made in scientific advancement in these areas so it's not like anyone said, hey, let's put windmills up and we're done, let's go get a beer. Why aren't we building out nuclear. that's your question.

On lithium mining, that's a problem. And there isn't as much as we would like in the Earth. Quick googling shows sodium isn't as energy dense but it works. And we've got a decent amount of salt on the planet. But that's not even the point. The point is Li-ion batteries aren't the end solution. They are a stepping stone. They will be used for years to come but I'm pretty sure within 5 years from now the flat-earthers will have another battery to ***** about.

The net net is he glued all kinds of random thoughts together to get to a 5 second money shot that most of the world is already doing. And of course he doesn't say how you can effect change. Maybe send Greta a Christmas card or something.