In the 80's the global population was roughly 4B and half of these (2B) were in extreme poverty. Today we have almost double the global population and less tha

In the 80's the global population was roughly 4B and half of these (2B) were in extreme poverty. Today we have almost double the global population and less than 1B in extreme poverty. Given that the biggest chunk of the emissions in the last 30 years came from nonOECD countries I don't see what the alternative was. Force the poor countries to starve to death and not use cheap fossils to feed their people?