The recycling movement was green washing from the petro chemical industry to shift responsibility of trash from the industry to individuals. It was a failure by design and never meant to create a closed loop of production and consumption [0].

You are correct by pointing out the intermittency of some renewable sources of energy. These are constraints of the technology that have engineering solutions.

I don’t think activists are to blame for what we see. They are a convenient scapegoat. Think about who would benefit from having us all sit quietly at home waiting for our leadership to make the right decisions for us.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drilled/id1439735906?i...