He definitely isn’t the first to figure that out, and not the first to die after
Energy is power and those who run this world as well as many down the line would rather poison the planet and have humans slave away in misery than let there be cheap abundant clean energy for everyone.
Humanity won't be able to break free from our current shackles until something happens bad enough that the Elites and the entire society they control is destroyed and somebody starts again, hopefully a better kind of people.