<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="c-article-header" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 18px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 40px;"><header style="box-sizing: inherit;"><ul class="c-article-identifiers" data-test="article-identifier" style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.3; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><li class="c-article-identifiers__item" data-test="article-category" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 8px; padding-right: 8px; list-style: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-right: 2px solid rgb(197, 224, 244);">Comment</li><li class="c-article-identifiers__item" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-right: medium;">Published: <time datetime="2026-05-27" style="box-sizing: inherit;">27 May 2026</time></li></ul><h1 class="c-article-title" data-test="article-title" data-article-title="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Harding, Palatino, serif; font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 1.2; letter-spacing: min(max(-0.011716rem, 4vw), -0.039063rem); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation</h1><ul class="c-article-author-list c-article-author-list--short js-no-scroll" data-test="authors-list" data-component-authors-activator="authors-list" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; list-style: none; font-size: 1rem;"><li class="c-article-author-list__item" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; padding-right: 0px;"><a data-test="author-name" data-track="click" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track-index="1_9" data-track-context="researcher popup with no profile" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Charlotte_A_-Kukowski-Aff1" data-author-popup="auth-Charlotte_A_-Kukowski-Aff1" data-author-search="Kukowski, Charlotte A." data-corresp-id="c1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(2, 94, 141); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.08em;">Charlotte A. 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THE LANCET Planetary Health, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(242, 110, 8); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(242, 110, 8);">Open Access </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Published:June, 2021DO</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">I:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00079-6"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00079-6</span></a> </span></p><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">\u201cWhat can be said with assurance is that there is a unique and nearly ubiquitous compound, with the empirical formula H296o O1480 C1480 N16 P1.8 S called living matter. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Its synthesis, on an oxidized and uncarboxylated earth, is the most intricate feat of chemical engineering ever performed \u2013-- and the most delicate operation that people have ever </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">tampered with.\u201d</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral Cycles.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Scientific American, September 1970</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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