![]() Thanks to the transformation pioneered by British scientists and entrepreneurs, billions of people now enjoy levels of health that even kings could once only dream of. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pictured addressing delegates during the summit on November 7īetween 1800 and the present day, average global life expectancy has risen from 29 to 71. The issue of climate reparations is already dominating this week’s Cop 27 conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. Britain led the way, but other nations soon followed and over the last two centuries technological progress has lifted entire nations out of poverty. Until new British technologies arising from coal and steam made possible the rapid rise in prosperity from around 1800, practically everyone lived in what would now be considered extreme poverty.įor the first time in history, new industries created enough wealth to bring a sustained increase in living standards and life expectancy. ![]() Of the many benefits that Britain has brought humanity, perhaps the greatest of all is the Industrial Revolution. Why, in any case, should Britain apologise for dragging the rest of the world out of the abject poverty in which it had lived since time immemorial? Talking of India, the country has seen its CO2 emissions quadruple since 1990, making it the third-largest producer of greenhouse gases on the planet.Įven as we prepare to beggar ourselves by adhering to economically punishing net-zero targets, should we now also accede to India’s demands for reparations, despite its economic success? Intellectually it would be utterly idiotic. So Ed Miliband thinks Britain has a ‘historical responsibility’ to pay climate reparations to the developing world (pictured in 2019)
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