His entire argument is predicated on the assumption that fossil fuels would need to be used as a primary source…
That’s not true, and it’s disappointing he didn’t realize that.
Other planets may very well not have a large reserve of fossil fuels, and if it wasn’t carbon based, it might not matter anyways
Hell, it’s just as likely that type of climate change would be beneficial as harmful to hypothetical aliens.
He keeps saying it’s not a “ladder” with only one path, but is insistent that every other civilization took the same fossil fuel shortcut as us rather than advancing slowly enough that they’d realize consequences before it was too late.
Just because we fucked our planet up, doesn’t mean every one else did, it doesn’t even mean anyone else had the same opportunity to fuck it up as bad as we did.
We can’t extrapolate from post industrial revolution, because not everyone went thru something as damaging as that. Not even every human culture went through that, the ones who didn’t were just conquered by the ones who didn’t or hadn’t yet.
It’s not an inevitablity.
