> The west bootstrapped modern civilization

Bootstrapped? You mean raped, pillaged, exterminated and polluted.

> Other countries dont need to because cleaner technology is available now.

'Available'? You mean poor countries have to pay rich western countries exorbitant prices to use 'clean' technology when they could simply use abundant and cheap coal, oil, etc to develop?

You act like we are trying to give underdeveloped countries free technology. No what developing regions like india, asean, africa, etc should be doing is pumping out coal, nuclear, gas, oil, fossil fuel plants and improving the lives of their people.