In the ongoing website war, here’s one reviewing a new book by a lifelong, committed environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, Apocolypse Never.. He’s studied so much he’s changed his mind. So it is possible it seems.
Here’s a taste relevant to recent back and forth here about the cost of power since renewables started penetrating.
In the end, there is no amount of technological innovation that can solve the fundamental problem with renewables. Solar and wind make electricity more expensive for two reasons: they are unreliable, thus requiring 100 percent back up, and energy-dilute, thus requiring extensive land, transmission lines, and mining. In other words, the trouble with renewables isn’t fundamentally technical—it’s natural.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/10/climate-change-is-not-the-end-of-the-world/