The Rising Middle Classes Across the World Will Doom Climate Policy

Exxon lays out the basic reality that dooms the global warming climate change climate disruption policy movement to failure - a rising global middle class won't be denied. 

Even as the most advanced economies cut energy use by almost one tenth through 2040 and add hundreds of millions of fuel-efficient vehicles, booming growth in places like India, South Africa and Thailand will boost demand for fuels 36 percent, the Irving, Texas-based company said in its annual outlook. Emissions will surge as an expanding middle class in poorer nations demands electricity, schools and hospitals.

I was ahead of Exxon by about six years.