" Happy to contaminate the planet with spent lithium batteries, solar panels and wind turbines without a second thought. "
Errrr..............that's incorrect .
We are recycling renewables now rather than dumping them .
Recycling a very valuable resource and reducing waste at the same time .
The renewable industry has developed technologies for recycling that are being used by other industries. E.g. Recycling batteries from phones.
That's another great feature of renewables . They are nearly completely recyclable . No toxic waste that people have to pay for over thousands of years