(I’m not making a claim that we should slow either branch down nor keep people poor so only the rich can keep burning fossils.)
We have only ever managed to get people out of poverty by increasing their per-capita energy usage.
Any once we do, their families demand to maintain said standard of living that can only be met with enormous amounts of concentrated energy.
We have - and continue - to do this using fossil fuels.
Do you have another, secret, method?
They can skip the fossil fuels and go straight to green energy can they not? This will require advances in technology, and therefore should be our focus.
No they cannot.
We cannot even get Switzerland - small, rich, smart, friendly, good infrastructure, top class law, surrounded by mountains and water, etc. etc. to renewables in a decade.