Doing something because it's the "most economical" is why we have a climate catastrophe on our hands. Plus solar can't actually provide steady power on it's own and never will be able to. Exotic nation wide energy storage solutions do not exists at our current level of technology. Instead solar/wind has to be offset by natural gas power plants.

I fully support solar and wind but I don't think it's a one size fits all at this point. I think solar needs to get a lot more efficient and better to cover all the applications that oil and gas and coal do.

Even renewables need mining (sadly) which has significant impacts.