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PREFACE

How can we stop the world from burning?

For many years, I responded to that question as an environmental advocate.

In our fight against climate change, my colleagues and I employ hard-edged tools such as legislation, policy, and litigation—all informed by science and real-world impacts on people and nature.

But as the Anthropocene accelerates and our time runs out to set the world on a more

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