Cases have risen most slowly in the rich, developed countries.
(Only the rich developed nations were so bound).
The recently published child mortality figures are significantly correlated with income inequality in rich, developed nations.
The populations of much poorer countries are less happy than people in the rich developed countries.
The UK is the "second most dysfunctional society in the rich developed world", after – you guessed it – the US.
The gap between rich developed countries and poor desperate ones is perhaps never as glaringly wide as in a natural disaster.
Relatively rich developing countries such as Indonesia, China and the Philippines are rumoured to support India's request, but opposition to the proposed rule change is strong and widespread.
While rich developed countries including Britain worry about how to pay for the increasing costs of their existing healthcare systems, newly powerful economies have a different problem: building medical services to serve the expectations of their increasingly wealthy populations.
Nick Clegg will have to make a judgment on the political damage the abolition of the top rate might cause his party, and that in part will be shaped by the overall package on the rich developed by the Treasury.
The most important thing rich, developed nations can do is to realize that they need to become better role models by limiting their own global environmental impacts, including by controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
Meanwhile, India's Environment Minister, Shri Prakash Javadekar, said he had no problem with a 1.5C target so long as the rich, developed countries make the additional emissions cuts that would be required to meet it.
