It's absolutely a problem - energy blindness [1] - and it is intricately intertwined, along with much more, in the domain of geopolitics [2], something of which recently I've come to have a better and deeper understanding.

[1] - https://natehagens.substack.com/p/frankly-3-energy-blindness [2] - https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world/