What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
In football, it’s the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today – mostly by fossil fuels – you’d have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.