The Case for Climate Reparations

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David Wallace wells: Who's responsible for all the carbon that's already, you know, destroying the planet? The short answer is, the rich countries of the world. We're not in the bind wern today because of india and china's future omissions, although we need to take care of them," he says. "We owe it to the people who've done the least and who are going to be suffering from the damage that we've caused"

While world leaders have descended on Glasgow to try to figure out how to slow emissions in the future, New York magazine’s David Wallace-Wells argues rich countries like the United States should also atone for their polluting past.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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