While it is absolutely true that he cares, I think you are selling his long term plans short. The primary growth factor for the channel was reviewing phones with the repairability / endurance focus, but somewhat recently he expanded to topics such as plugging abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane and wheelchair mobility issues. From what I understand he has a couple similar things in the pipeline.
I think so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R71uDa3DNw
my biggest annoyance is his plugging or advertising stuff too obviously
What? That still happens with so much CO2 and climate change outrage and people literally gluing themselves to roads as protest?
Ok, did more research: "In 2021, fugitive U.S. methane emissions from abandoned wells were 295 kilotons—equivalent to 8.2million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.4 to 25.1 MMT, the largest uncertainty range among the nation’s largest sources of methane (US EPA 2023)." https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-metha...
So the estimate would range from 0.12% to 0.4% (for 8mmt and 25mmt respectively).
If I remember correctly he first built her a wheelchair to go hiking in. That was kinda the beginning of their relationship. I think there was also a stair climbing wheelchair involved at some point, but that could have been a sponsored thing rather than something he built.
He’s also been working on an electric humvee. So he’s a lot more than just the channel where he scratches and tears apart phones.