At the University of Lagos, legal scholar Dr. Asikia Karibi-Whyte invoked a foundational principle of international law — that states persist even as governments change — to argue that the United Kingdom bears unbroken legal responsibility for the ecological destruction wrought during its colonial rule across Africa. The occasion was the launch of a research report, CO2lonialism, Ecocide and Reparations, which attempts to quantify that destruction and fold it into formal reparations claims that could reach hundreds of trillions of dollars. The argument does not ask Britain to accept a new lega