Did I get it COMPLETELY wrong last week??

Agriculture has grown - with its costs and benefits evening out. Coal in China is a problem - and if you look at how actual Chinese people live, on average, the benefits of their industrialization are primitive - accruing mostly to elites. The question we must focus on is how our activities have affected the heating of Barents Sea, which has varied hugely - not marginally - and is correlated with the use of gasoline powered vehicles. We need to permanently park these things and replace them with tethered electric in urban, suburban, exurban and highway settings (with hybrids in rural areas where infrastructure would cost more energy and carbon than the harm created).  

Climate goals are too little too late. The spring in the US has brought about yet another year of record heat in the same areas in both El Nino and La Lina years. The tipping point was breached at least ten years ago. Drastic action is needed to reset Barents Sea to a point where we keep breeching records. Global temperatures are not the issue. Heating of that specific place, caused by a specific chain of events that have been traced, is what must be focused on - not probabilistic climate models and international goals.