Interesting I can't access that story to inform Michael all the reasons why he is wrong about that, but thanks for letting me know :)
Maybe he could come and argue it out here, or in response to any of the work I've done (he might have tried already, in some guise or another, for all we might know).
Most obvious reason is biofuels were tried in Brazil, not even for aviation, which has a much higher demand for fuel, but for road transportation, the results were a disaster, it resulted in even greater damage being done to the environment due to incentivising destruction of the environment to create the biofuels after they came into demand.
We should recognise this is what is on the cards by batteries also, what has been implemented so far by batteries gives no real indication of the cost to the environment which extraction of the required Lithium will cause. The numbers are truly huge, when we take in the total amount of energy that needs to be stored.
No surprise we are ramping up to a substantial population cull, because some people think this is necessary, to get the demand for extracted energy down to within more manageable numbers.
But there is no manageable or even survivable outcome, of responding to depletion by reducing our numbers.
This is why allowing the culling and the inhumanity to continue, and even to escalate, is very, very wrong, we will all suffer by that imho.