This is CBS I In The World, I'm John Bachelor.

Climate justice.

At the recent COP27, one of the decisions made in the last days was reparations to

nations to sovereignty's damage by climate change, driven by the presumption of the

most developed nations, the United States, for example.

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, writing most recently

at defining ideas about climate justice or what is also called climate reparations.

Richard guides us to a quote from Aristotle, more than 2,500 years ago, very helpful to

ponder this.

The quote, for it makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad

man, a good one.

The law looks only to the distinctive character of the injury and treats the parties as equal.

If one is in the wrong and the other is being wrong, end of the quote.

Richard, a very good day to you.

This quote is uplifting.

How does it help us understand the decisions in train at COP27 for climate reparations?

Good day to you.

It's a tricky point.

If you start off with what Aristotle is saying, he says this is a theory of corrective

justice.

It's what I did unto you in this particular transaction that matters.

Our general status and stature in the world does not matter at all for the particular

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