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for taking our brief survey. Again, that's at climate one.org forward slash survey. Does solving climate change mean rethinking old top-down approaches and embracing big change at high speed?

Climate One conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,

the exciting and the scary aspects

of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. The environmental agenda now before the Congress

includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise,

careless land development, and many other environmental problems.

When President Nixon announced the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972,

it marked a new commitment by the U.S. government to addressing environmental issues.

But a half century later, some argue it's time to challenge some of its basic assumptions.

The original environmental framework was designed in a world that was information poor.

We're now in an information-rich world.

And one of the things that we can do differently today is track those harms and make people pay for them.

Daniel Esty is Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale Law School.

Green to Gold, the 2009 book he co-authored, shaped corporate sustainability, remains a seminal work in the field.

He's editor of the new book, A Better Planet, 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future.

No matter where you are, no matter what you do, climate change risk is coming in some gradient or form.

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