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Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Adapting to Changes that We Cannot Prevent
While policymakers debate the best responses to climate change and seek
to forge legislative consensus, the effects of climate change are
already being felt. Among the first to be affected are low-income
communities that have long been disproportionately burdened by
environmental problems. Devising methods of adaptation in these
communities now, before the most catastrophic effects occur, will avoid
higher costs and greater risks.
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