What is wrong with using renewable energy?

Nothing except that we literally don't have the resources to scour the earth to meet the energy demands of an entire planet.

and then you’ve poisoned a whole region for decades.

I'm sure the poisoned watersheds of mining waste for cobalt, lithum, and other rare minerals are completely recoverable as toxic lead and waste seeps into the soil.

Not to mention the absolute disaster that oil has turned the Niger river delta into.