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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Allowing a pass for developing countries to pollute and consume fossil fuels itself is an admission that fossil fuel consumption and wealth/well-being go hand and hand. If we're talking about reducing CO2 emissions, we're talking about burning less hydrocarbons, and therefore reducing wealth and well-being.
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That is not correct - developing countries have leapfrogged past landlines, straight to cellphones. The IPCC says that we, the nations who exploited fossil fuels, need to help pay for ALL of us to leap forward past fossil fuels. There are so many upsides to renewable energy - mainly massive improvement is health and clean water and air - that we all will benefit by leaving fossil fuels behind.
We all have to do this, more or less at the same time - in order for ANYONE to avoid the huge impending and ACCELERATING challenges of our climate crisis.