Humanity's relationship with producing energy continually blows my mind, and it's one of the main things that makes me think that maybe we do live in a simulation.

We discovered fossil fuel energy, which was fine for a bit to kick off the industrial revolution, but obviously is super harmful in the long term. Then just as it was starting to become a problem, the universe went "okay, here's this magic rock that just gives off energy, you can use that to generate massive amounts of power with no carbon." And we just went "nah."

So then, the universe is like, "alright then, how about this: you can just get it from the sun, the air and water. Again no carbon and it's infinite free energy forever, you're welcome." And again, we were like "no we want to just burn fossils." Even now at the ecosystem is visibly collapsing around us we're adopting it somewhat, but still dragging ass on it like crazy.

It's like whoever's running the simulation keeps dropping the difficulty level to help us not die, and we just won't accept it. I fully expect in the next century or so we'll figure out cold fusion, build like two plants and humanity will just collectively go "BORING" and dig up more coal again.