In contrast, I do love it when @pluralistic drops ruthlessly well-researched factoids like this into a conversation;
"The material bill for solarising and electrifying the planet - so all the stuff we would need, all the minerals we would need - it's about a 17th of what we dig up every year."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory-doctorow-enshittification-is-not-inevitable
There's a blurry line between being sceptical enough to avoid getting sucked into greenwashing and too sceptical to accept any good news.