Your thinking appears to align pretty much with the messages of this podcast (not only this episode). In case you don't know it already, you may well find it interesting, never mind the esoteric sounding name:
https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/electric-vehicles-...
Degrowth aka massive reduction of consumption of basically everything would be the only solution, but it's not going to happen.
The sad part is that all the irrational optimism from the renewable energy proponents/lobby is a significant contributor to preventing more people from realizing this. Which in turn will mostly prevent politics from trying to enact the necessary policies.
Here's an actual link to the interesting episode: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/rr01-berman-m...
Like say, if you want to reduce consumption, that's technology too. LED lighting is pretty new, but far more efficient than incandescent.