It also oddly mixes social justice and enviromentalism?
Also: take the example of the Ozone layer that the author mentions. It did not magically repair itself, but because the global nations got its stuff together and actually did something about it. Imagine HCFCs would have been handled like we handle CO2 today: not with legislation banning it with a definitive end date, but by putting some kind of low tax on it that might rise in the future, but maybe not.
I don't know, I understand the point that the autor tries to make, but it all feels not thought through to the end.