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Cop26 will be derailed unless the rich world meets its obligation to the poor

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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”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/04/cop26-rich-world-poor-developing-nations-decarbonise-west-climate-crisis