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Dear Mr. Trump: Climate policy puts lives in your hands

  • Written by Travis N. Rieder, Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
imageDrought, which affects food production, will become more common as the Earth heats up, which can cause deaths and destabilize societies. cafodphotolibrary/flickr, CC BY-NC

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