He also wraps it up with a bit of climate denial, so he thinks the real problem is imaginary.

Extra mental gymnastics as he interpreted reports of significantly improved pollution when we shut down everything as proof, somehow, that humanity didn’t really make that much of a difference… So either a difference is observed and that means it’s the rest of the way reversible so it can’t be that big of a deal or no difference would’ve been seen and he would have concluded humanity must not make a difference because no difference was seen…