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What The Pandemic Can Teach Climate Attorneys, Sara C. Bronin
What The Pandemic Can Teach Climate Attorneys, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more rapid changes to the law than most of us have seen in our lifetimes. These changes have remade, and in many cases severed, our social and economic connections to each other, in ways unprecedented except during war.
As many have argued, climate change is also a dire emergency, requiring an equally sweeping legal response. Rising seas, raging wildfires, and dramatic hurricanes have already destroyed lives and communities. We may be a few years away from irreversible devastation.
Yet we have not seen even a fraction of the legal reforms needed to reverse our march …