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The problem with treating climate change purely as an energy issue is that it narrows the scope of the conversation to technology, while leaving the underlying behaviour of industrial civilisation largely unquestioned. The assumption is that if energy becomes cleaner, the system itself becomes sustainable. But those are not necessarily the same thing. A civilisation can electrify transport, decarbonise sections of its grid, expand renewable infrastructure, and still remain fundamentally dependent on continuous extraction, continuous expansion, and continuously rising material consumption in order to sustain economic growth. And that is where the discussion becomes far more uncomfortable than simply debating fossil fuels versus renewables. Because the deeper issue may not be how civilisation is powered, but how civilisation operates. Modern economies are still overwhelmingly structured around perpetual growth. More production, more consumption, more infrastructure, more manufacturing, more resource throughput. Technological efficiency may slow the rate of damage in certain areas, but efficiency alone does not necessarily alter the underlying logic driving the system forward. In many cases, it simply allows the system to scale more effectively.