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Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that studies environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.

Recommendations

In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from environmental damage:[1]

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    Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 279.

James Love­lock (1919 – 2022)

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