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Do countries really need fossil fuels to develop? (www.dw.com)

submitted 4 months ago by voidx@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today

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[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not really. Underdeveloped countries need something of high demand but still not very complicated to produce. Fossils, grains or... That's it, actually...

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Any other mining or agricultural product. Remittances from people sent abroad. Textiles are the next step up, then injection molded plastic crap and similar.

It doesn't have to be fossil fuels, I'm not sure if any of the Asian tiger economies relied on that. It's been suggested having oil kind of stunts development, even.