Here's the missing part behind the paywall:

"Please don't get the idea that this is a book for the kind of contrarian-libertarian-blockchain-bro who would like to blow the lid off all that green hype, man. Fressoz firmly believes we're in the midst of a global climate breakdown.

But, if we flash back just a year or two, the dominant progressive narrative maintained that—given enough international cooperation, good will, and younger-generation energy—we could lick the world's environmental problems through innovation and something called the "energy transition." This was backed up by statistics showing that people were switching to electric cars, and that wind, solar, and other renewables were accounting for an increasing proportion of energy generation. This Polyanna discourse still pervades a certain kind of discourse—some people call it "solutionism," or the "California ideology"—that holds that once the little Trumpist blip is over, we'll get back to building a better future by ramping up the green economy and coming up with as-yet-uninnovated innovations that will solve all our problems (cold fusion? solar radiation modification?)

Fressoz splashes a bucket of well-chilled Evian over that Sunkist La-La land dreck. His main thesis is that there is no energy transition, and there never was one. "