News Headline
Cop26 will be derailed unless the rich world meets its obligation to the poor
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2021-11-04
A couple of hundred years ago Britain was not a lot different from many poor countries today. Life expectancy was low, infant mortality was high, living standards barely rose from year to year, water-borne diseases were rife. People worked long hours and life for the struggling was, as Thomas Hobbes put it, “nasty, brutish and short”.