Paul there is another way to view this more positively, I believe.

Like you identified, fossil fuel consumption is the issue, electricity is only a medium of energy transfer (also used by nature btw), it is our sourcing all our energy needs from fossil fuels consumption which is unsustainable.

We might see those reserves of energy-rich fossil fuels as a kind of placenta, or egg-yolk energy reserve, upon which a fledgling intelligent species (Us!), has to feed, until we reach a stage of being able to survive from the energy of our environment, independently of the energy requirements of our mother (Nature).

So we might see we have to go solar.

Denying, or ignoring that, is like a baby refusing to be born, or a chicken refusing to peck its way out of an egg, it seems to me.

Websites like the one below help us to put things into context;

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/climate-change/energy