Why not do both.
The private storage method he illustrates won't be a trap. Any new civs will never reach them within their hazardous decay period. Absolutely no way. They take up very little space we can still live underground directly above them and it would be pretty safe even if we boiled off the atmosphere and only lived underground cracking hydrogen oxygen and carbon from rocks and sipping algae and recycling our poop and pee. We could probably grow to 10 billion that way.
It's literally the safest way to get the energy to do that. Even if we did it on an incredibly massive scale. It would still only be a tiny fraction of the bad we are doing now.
Where they drill down super deep and slide it in tubes. The amount of waste is still ultra miniscule.
You could even live in a facility next to it if you had too and it would be a million times safer than living nexto a coal plant. And natgas while less toxic is really bad cuz methane.
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