Foreword
Populations and industries have grown globally since the nineteenth century, and climate factors have changed along with them. It has been a long time since there has been legislative action on climate change — it was June of 2009 when the House of Representatives last considered major legislation to curb greenhouse gases — but a new resolution called the Green New Deal has returned the issue to the forefront, and along with a focus on planetary health, has raised issues of economic inequality. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a congressionally mandated Federal program developed in 1990, studies the…
