Exactly correct: If this technology comes to fruition they will find some other environmental reason we can't use it.
It's shocking how many conservatives don't understand that wind and solar are NOTHING but a commie plot designed to make electricity scarce and expensive and it does both very well. Both are far more harmful to the environment than even the dirtiest coal plants.
For massive amounts of cheap baseload energy, fusion is the way to go. Once you get fusion working, the resources of solar system and beyond opens up. A good Youtube channel that gives you an idea of what could be is Isaac Arthur’s (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g).
The environmentalist keep banging on about how we’d need X number of Earth’s if people lived like an average American/Australian/European/etc... Well, guess what? The solar system has the resources to have 100’s of trillions or more of people with a living standard better than now.