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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Living in an Environmental Age -- Part I State of the Planet -- Section 1: Species Unbound: Humanity's Environmental Impact -- Introduction -- 1. Enter the Anthropocene -- 2. State of the Species -- 3. Humanity's Potential -- Section 1 Exercise: The Time Machine -- Section 2: Four Planetary Challenges: Climate, Extinction, Water, and Food -- Introduction -- 4. Global Warming's Terrifying New Math -- 5. End of the Wild -- 6. Where Has All the Water Gone? -- 7. The Global Food Crisis -- Section 2 Exercise: Fries with That? Tracing Personal Consumption -- Section 3: Causes of Environmental Harm -- Introduction -- 8. Too Many Americans? -- 9. A Finite Earth? -- 10. Consequences of Consumerism -- 11. Use Energy, Get Rich, and Save the Planet -- Section 3 Exercise: Where Do Babies Come From? The Causes of Population Growth -- Part II States, Markets, and Society: Geopolitical Responses to Unsustainability -- Section 4: International State System -- Introduction -- 12. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development -- 13. Brief History of International Environmental Cooperation -- 14. What's Wrong with Climate Politics -- 15. State Sovereignty Endangers the Planet -- Section 4 Exercise: Talking with the United Nations -- Section 5: Economy -- Introduction -- 16. The Promise of Corporate Environmentalism -- 17. Environmental Economics 101: Overcoming Market Failures -- 18. Capitalism vs. Climate -- Section 5 Exercise: What's for Dinner? -- Section 6: Civil Society -- Introduction -- 19. The Power of Environmental Activism -- 20. Forcing Cultural Change -- 21. The Wrong Kind of Green -- Section 6 Exercise: Unpacking the NGO World and Taking Action -- Section 7: Race, Class, and Geopolitical Difference -- Introduction

This article looks at the current state of carbon removal approaches and some of the politics that surround them. It outlines what carbon removal is, charts some of the major challenges and controversies, and sketches some of the work needed to ensure that carbon removal developments are attentive to environmental sustainability and social justice. It also examines some of the major carbon removal options that are either in development or in discussion, starting with biological approaches and then looking at engineered options.

Prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, included are - reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflections on the power of social movements and international institutions, and calls for more compelling narratives to promote environmental action.

This paper makes a normative argument for the greater strategic utilization of human rights institutions, practices, and discourses by those seeking a robust response to climate change. Bandwagoning between these two regimes is hardly a new thing. The environmental movement has long looked to the human rights movement for ideas and support, and vice versa. Here, we argue that there is potential for even more explicit bandwagoning in ways that will most directly benefit those who are suffering, and will continue to suffer, from climate change's greatest impacts. The human rights framework offers a guide to more effective climate action via two interconnected arenas: a legal arena that provides an established set of tools for climate activists, and a political arena that provides a normative underpinning for a range of judicial and non-judicial actions in support of 'climate justice.' Ultimately, moral and strategic guidance from the human rights movement points the way to a more equitable and enduring climate politics, with fairness at its heart.