DURHAM, North Carolina – As this year’s brutal summer showed, it has become increasingly easy to track the consequences of climate change.
Just as extreme weather is claiming more and more human lives, more and more species are being lost to extinction. Entire communities have been displaced by savage storms and intolerable temperatures, and rising sea levels and unstable agricultural production threaten to destroy millions of jobs.
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