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The technological landscape that developing countries have today is very different from what it was a century ago. Wind and solar power are cheap in a way that they weren't then, so there's the possibility of a green industrialization, where they don't have to go down the road the US and Europe and China did.
Yeah naa...there's a reason coal is being used and i'll let you do your research before spilling BS.
In the vast majority of developing nations coal is far more expensive than solar - even when factoring in batteries.
Care to share your baseless nonsense? There's enough of it out there that I won't make assumptions about your personal flavor of dumb.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Everyone's a keyboard warrior here -
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/23458617/cop27-fossil-fuels-energy-developing-countries-coal-oil-gas-africa-finance
Everyone is a keyboard warrior, but not all of us have a point - do you?
TL;DR of your citation: Developing nations are a drop in the ocean, fossil fuels have significant downsides, and it wouldn't be fair to put this burden on them - even if it threatens their existence more than most.
None of that disagrees meaningfully with anything I've said. Renewables are a cheaper solution all of us should be using.
What's the point you failed to outsource?
The issue is mostly availability and infrastructure. Wind and solar only produce energy when there's wind and solar. However new renewable energy is cheaper to produce but is inconsistent and not as reliable as a coal burning plant.
You can do something like Australia did with their huge Tesla battery to store the renewables but that's not very economically feasible for developing nations, but they should still be building out new renewables for energy and filling the gaps with fossil fuels instead of just sticking with fossil fuels entirely.