It is difficult to say where climate change will push environmental law. Indeed, the big question of climate change - how to reduce emissions - is quickly surpassing the province of environmental law, as it has largely become a matter of economic and social policy. Environmental law might like to claim ownership of the greenhouse gas question, but I doubt that is where the action will be as climate policy evolves. Rather, GHG reductions, however implemented, will causernmassive redirections of economic activity, which will have their own environmental effects.rnMoreover, climate change itself - and we're in for some regardless of how fast GHG policy is settled - will lead to widespread eco-rnlogical reshuffling and the need for human populations to adapt land use practices and the location of land uses most affected by changed conditions, such as agriculture and coastal urban centers. It is these secondary effects at which the future of environmental law should be aimed.
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