Today's first-world sub-economy is not limited by total energy output, but by consumer demand and private credit. Furthermore, production of high-energy products would be moved towards underdeveloped countries that aren't on the Annex I of the Kyoto Protocol: that is, countries that don't have any restrictions yet on their maximum CO2 output.

Yeah, non-Annex I countries would be screwed if they tried to export energy to developed countries. That could be one way it could backfire, I guess. Given our demand for petrol, the upcoming demand for coal in under-developed countries once we move our primary and secondary economies there, and the traditional "resource curse", I would argue they should worry about other, more interesting things, like corruption.

You don't convince me. Also, please explain what this "net creation of poverty" means.