The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

Well produced video: slick, entertaining, upbeat, and a charming narrator/producer. I wish I could say the same for the idea being presented. While a good job has been done on presenting the case, and it appears to have convinced a large proportion of intelligent people by using the 'make life better' paradigm, it wreaks of this syndrome of 'doubling down' that we see mostly in the political sphere, rather than taking stock and arriving at something more reasonable. 
Do we really need all the materialistic stuff that industry pumps out that they claim 'makes life better'? How much better does an electric toothbrush make life over a manual toothbrush, when offset by the energy and materials consumed to procure, conceptualize, tool a factory for production, package, advertise, market, repair, discard, collect and dump in landfill or recycle? Yes an electric toothbrush cleans very well, but is it really improving life? Think of the countless brands and varieties of junk being produced that serves very little purpose.
The same might be argued for the more "useful" junk our neurotic consumer world produces. We don't all need cars, nor computers, televisions ('smart' or otherwise) and the junk they are inextricably linked to. In short, we don't need to consume more energy because we don't need what that energy produces. How about focussing on nutrient-dense fresh food for poor and wealthy alike, and what the production and distribution of that would entail? Secure comfortable dwellings in neighborhoods where residents have equality and respectful regards for one another, and what the creation and maintenance of that would entail? 
The list of necessary energy-expending programs goes on. The energy and resources for these come from the unnecessary useless waste of energy that junk-production consumes. No we don't need to consume more energy, but yes we do need a complete rethink of what human society looks like, and how it functions. Unfortunately, with the kind of thinking that this video is promoting - wasteful consumption, justified by a "clean energy" gambit - it becomes clear that few if any are willing to give up their vacations to resorts in 2nd/3rd world countries (where the locals are barred from participating in the hedonism the wealthy enjoy) or their lattes-on-demand, compliments of the drive-through window, to achieve anything remotely close to the kind of change necessary for climate mitigation.
Enjoy your upbeat delusions of more waste, remembering to add that quip about fair and just society (though nothing was really mentioned about this, the real crux of our dilemma) so that those agreeing to this feel less guilty. This is simply all about young entitled people foolishly dreaming that the world they inherited from us older shits might in fact be saved. I honestly can't blame you. But it's the wrong approach.