Advanced NukeTech is the medium and long term way to go.
We should be getting on it instead of building more intermittently operating bat and eagle killerz.
You are right. Politicians do not seem to understand the vast scale of energy production and consumption.
If you study the subject long enough you come to the realization that nuclear energy has to be used. The only other viable, non-fossil fuel is hydroelectric. But we have dammed up most of the productive sites and they aren’t making any more rivers.
Solar and wind are intermittent.