> Asserting fossil fuels are crap

is a coarse short hand for saying they have negative externalities which are horrendous and that only really become unquestionable as the boiling frog dies.

This is not an ideological stance, more a thermodynamic one-

( my background includes a decade and more in exploration geophysics for resource mapping and extraction at multiple large country / continental scale measuring and modelling gravity, tides, magnetics, radiometrics, atmospheric temperature and density (not so much actual gas mix, although yes, isotopes) )

> Fossil fuels have amazing energy density, fantastic refueling characteristics,

which cannot be denied. They also increase the insulation factor of the atmosphere in a slow steady fashion that traps energy that would be radiated to space were it not for human fossil fuel usage .

> and a highly developed production and delivery infrastructure.

So do drug cartels.

We are in that time when it's humanities best interest to reduce fossil fuel usage as much as possible, as fast as possible, and look to means of extracting some of the excess CO2 from the atmosphere that has been added by humans.