It's a pretty cynical view of almost every subject explored. I don't take everything in it as truth. Lots of the info is very dated as well. Like I said, this guy was probably sitting on this thing for nearly a decade looking for someone to distribute it
I liked that it does touch on some points that are still lost on many. The amount of environmental destruction, polluting and human suffering going on completely out of everyone's sight that really has to happen to maintain the way of life we enjoy in the western world and to enable cost effective production of these "green" technologies. How many of these solutions sold as super green are not as perfect as many believe. How companies are discovering new ways all the time now for how they can hide behind a green facade to fool the masses, this applies to fossil fuel companies as well of course, although it's far harder for them to fool the well informed. How extremely obvious it has become that there is lots of free government money to be made from trying to sway the green movement to influence governments to hit arbitrary numerical targets where they then need to find things to throw money at to get there the quickest. I'd be pretty darn disappointed in greedy people if they weren't deep into that cycle of pushing environmental groups in sync with lobbying governments.
Still, I think it oversells the idea a bit that there is no difference between using new renewable tech and things like coal. There is absolutely a measurable improvement in overall pollution and emissions making that transition. The problem is far more complicated than just saying it's just all the same. Just for example, the more renewable sources you try to replace reliable consistent power source with, the more costs ramp up, because you need backups on standby. Everything looks fine and dandy when you try to replace 10-20% or so of your generation with an intermittent source, you can make pretty good guesses of what kinds of backup you need to keep things pretty level. Once you start trying to cut into replacing consistent sources more with intermittent ones, you really start having to throw money at the problem. The amount of backup power plants you need to subsidize to make it worthwhile for them to exist and have workers starts to skyrocket. Or you need to create insanely huge fields of battery farms, that turn into a money pit themselves as massive amounts of batteries fail and need maintenance and replacement.
These problems are not as simple to solve as many believe, although, governments just throwing money at the problems can still make the transition move. Just don't expect everyone to do it until there are some more major technological leaps. Even China is now starting to pull money away from renewables. The money train has stopped running for them to keep throwing money at solar subsidies and they are moving back to more coal. If they can't do it with their cheap labour and access to all needed raw materials right at home, along with stolen IP to make whatever they want, it's hard to see what hope others have.
