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That is why the idea of a purely technological solution increasingly feels incomplete. Technology can optimise systems. It can improve efficiency. It can reduce operational emissions. But it cannot, on its own, resolve a model built around infinite expansion across finite planetary systems. At some point, the conversation has to move beyond energy alone and confront the industrial behaviours sitting underneath it: disposability, planned obsolescence, mass extraction, perpetual consumption, and economic structures that depend on continuous growth regardless of ecological consequence. Because climate change was never created by electricity in isolation. It emerged from the cumulative behaviour of an industrial civilisation operating without meaningful long-term equilibrium between growth, extraction, and planetary limits. And unless that underlying behaviour changes, there is a risk that the transition itself simply becomes another phase of industrial expansion rather than a genuine departure from it. Cleaner perhaps. More efficient perhaps. But still moving in fundamentally the same direction.