Less-advanced economies getting a leg up on advanced ones due to a more equitable fossil fuel distribution sounds like a positive thing to me.

Modern economies depend squarely on the availability of energy. Removing energy sources without appropriate replacements will strangle everything.

That’s not to say that we don’t need to phase out fossil fuels (we do).

The greatest irony is perhaps that we instead of replacing our own dirty power plants with clean ones as they age, and funneling extra resources to developing countries to make sure they can start out with clean systems, are rushing to tear down fully functioning machines and simultaneously pushing developing countries into the fossil fuel trap.