Also China and India are investing a crazy amount into replacing coal. Its just a slow process since they have to balance it with economic growth. Governments there are pretty cognizant that they'll be pretty badly affected by climate change. But the OP isn't really interested in facts, he's more interested in having his selfishness seen as rational.
Sources are numerous but heres the first few I found :
Unfortunately, the OP's mindset is that of many Westerners.
Currently, the average Indian citizen emits half the greenhouse gas of the global per capita average. To argue that they deserve less than their share is blatent discrimination.
Meanwhile, China has invested more than double what the US invested into renewable energy sources over the past decade, and more than all of Europe combined. And this is all while the average Chinese citizen emits 10 metric tons less of greenhouse gasses than the average American.
But all you hear in the west is how the bad coal plants in India and China are causing global warming when China already has 1 million more GWh
of renewable energy than the US.
The fact is western lifestyles are not sustainable, especially American lifestyles.
But even if US citizens dropped per capita consumption to that of avg Chinese citizen, it wouldn't make a difference if the absolute volume of emissions into the atmosphere from China still dwarfed the impact of that change in the US. The point is that, while restricting lifestyles and carbon emissions in the West is fair, it's ultimately pointless w.r.t climate change.
Politically it's going to be a tough sell in the US to convince average Americans that they should sacrifice their standard of living so that China can get ahead. Meanwhile they have nuclear weapons pointed at us.
Sources are numerous but heres the first few I found :
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/govt-nod-to-stronger...
https://www.csis.org/east-green-chinas-global-leadership-ren...
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