Nobody has mentioned that these projects have another intention/effect: they make poor people more dependent on global supply chains and the monetary system. In

Nobody has mentioned that these projects have another intention/effect: they make poor people more dependent on global supply chains and the monetary system. Instead of using cheap/free, local, sustainably grown wood, or cow dung, they’re required to purchase LPG containers or pellets produced in distant factories (probably from unsustainably harvested wood in other countries). Or they’re dependent on the electric grid, which may be unreliable and expensive. These projects may reduce emissions, and they may improve health outcomes, but they also keep the poor subjugated by the global industrial system. That must be a factor in the programs’ popularity — it’s another way to extract wealth from the poor.