Pouring grease on a fire will make it worse. Picking up a bear cub when the mother is nearby will increase (by how much I don't know) the risks of getting attacked by a bear. Both of those sentences to me sound like genuine description of the reality we live in. Climate change is real and caused by human emissions is another one of those, though a bit less precise as "climate change" is less precise. Saying we should or shouldn't do something is something different.

Also, you can increase power capacity by a lot while reducing emissions, with stuff like solar panels or nuclear power.