It is interesting that he didn’t mention Africa.
Not a lot of industrialization in Africa thought China is working on that. What Africa does have is super low wage human labor and children are fair game for laborers. Those kids helping to mine cobalt have a small carbon footprint though.
Africa, unlike India, China and Brazil, isn’t going anywhere. It’s going to stay poor and under developed and basically a source of commodities and raw materials for more advanced regions.