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By Anne T. Sulton, Ph.D., J.D.JA Senior International Correspondent This week, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report stating the damages to the planet caused by “past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia.” Essentially, this means that people living now and our posterity should expect […]

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