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Judy Layzer

Judy Layzer is an assistant professor of environmental policy in the urban studies and planning department at MIT. She is the author of The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy.

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Despite the complexity and unpredictability of the global climate system, there are factors that make some futures far more likely than others. In particular, we know that society’s introduction of more heat-trapping...
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