Well-written, but I’d like to add some points of mild disagreement.

- While I agree developing countries have every right to want to develop as quickly as possible, the technologies available to them are also more advanced. I’d be surprised if solar had no role to play in their energy mix.

- The US has an emission profile that’s just not comparable to the rest of the world. If the US had emissions per capita comparable to the rest of the advanced world, the climate crisis would be well on its way to being solved. While not directly related to your point about how the West shouldn’t dictate the energy mix of developing countries, it’s not trivial in a discussion on who gets to lecture who. It feels a lot like they are using Africa to justify their own reliance on fossils, imo inexcusable for a country as rich as the US.

- Action on climate change does pose a coordination problem, if everyone acts in their own self-interest the collective will be worse for it. Usage of fossil fuels cannot just be evaluated in the immediate benefit to people’s lives.