[PKop]

Which will cause massive hunger and poverty, therefore death, to millions of people in poorer nations completely dependent on cheap plentiful reliable fossil fuels.

To achieve what exactly? What catastrophic predictions are you claiming are accurate that would be changed by the immoral policy you advocate?

[nate_meurer]

Your sentiment is a good one, but your conclusion is mistaken IMO. For poor countries the old model of centralized fossil fuel infrastructure is not cheap, and its certainly isn't reliable.

The future of third-world energy security is distributed. Expect to see the same transformation as we've seen with telecom; third-world telecom largely skipped the copper and fiber in the last mile and even some of the backbone, and went straight to wireless. Likewise, these countries will benefit from skipping the expensive coal mines, coal trains, pipelines, power plants, and even some transmission infrastructure, and going straight to micro-grids. They may end up ahead of us in some ways.