No, you can't. First of all, it's not China that's going to be the problem, but the rest of Asia and Africa. Secondly, if we deny them the comfort, they'll do it anyway, and we'll have to either let them or go to war.

Wouldn't it be better to instead let the developing world leapfrog fossil fuel energy generation, and go straight to renewables (and possibly nuclear)? By e.g. donating technology, IP and expertise, and otherwise incentivize them to skip the dirty tech, at no loss in QoL improvements of their citizens?