I too was a big fan of pursuing a metaworld, doing so at PhD level, until it becane apparent to me that it could not be done at profit, in fact nothing benefiting the whole of humanity could be done at profit, including a sucessful vaccine, as we have seen. Since then, around 2017 I have been using all of my 20+ years experience and tools as a practicing Systems Engineering Consultant, to try to identify what needs to be changed in our system to put things right.
The result is in my stories about the Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge, Kardashev Engineering, Kardashev Money, and the Money-fuel Tree.
Anyone interested can search those out.
There you will see fully explained physical reason why the information quoted by your favored politician is not true.
His mention of batteries is irrelevant, in the presence solar to reversible hydrogen fuel cells.
You should ask him if he knows about that, and the implications on economy.
Where the concept of a battery is important, is in understanding that Earth itself is a kind of battery, which we have discharged to a point where living in the battety is now becoming exponentially more hazardous.
We simply can't discharge it any more, and the only power source with which it can be recharged is solar.
It might not occur to you, but the spontaneous combustion we saw in the new phenomenon of heat domes for the first time in 2021, is the forebearer of what can progress to a catastrophic oxygen burning event.
At the moment, only the woodlands are burning, which is bad enough, because those are what normally produces our oxygen, but much more seriously, and instantly terminal for all of life, is the possibility of the oxygen itself catching fire.
The outcome of that is literally a dead planet.
With the right mix of reduced oxygen, increased heat, and spontaneous combustion, the atmosphere of Earth becomes explosively flammable, and we are going in that direction, with every kilo of added C02.
You can carry on ignoring the science if you like, but nature, and physics is immovable, it will do what it does, no matter what you believe.
We can work with it, or carry on trying to work against it.
Working with it, everyone wins.
Working against it, everyone loses.