Most recent work

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2023. Saving Freedom From its History – Pierre Charbonnier, Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Cambridge, Polity, 2021, 327 p.)European Journal of Sociology. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975623000188. 

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2023. Reconsidering the Future. Law and Political Economy Project. February 23.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2023. “Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami? Yes.The Nation. February 3.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, J. Mijin Cha, Nick Graetz, Aaryaman “Sunny” Singhal, Raka Sen. 2022. “Securing Climate Justice Federally: A Political Economy Approach to Targeted Investments.” Environmental Justice. Online first. DOI: 10.1089/env.2022.0047.

Patrick Bigger, Johanna Bozuwa, J. Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Yonah Freemark, Batul Hassan, Thea Riofrancos. 2022. “Inflation Reduction Act: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.” Climate and Community Project. August 2.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2022. “A Green New Deal for Housing.” In Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Fong eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work. New York: Columbia University Press, 237-254.

Daniel Aldana Cohen and David Bond. 2022. “Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle.” In Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth eds. Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations. New York: Columbia University Press, 271-292.

Yonah Freemark, Billy Fleming, Caitlin McCoy, Rennie Meyers, Thea Riofrancos, Xan Lillehei, Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2022. “Toward a Green New Deal for Transportation: Establishing New Federal Investment Priorities to Build Just and Sustainable Communities.” Climate and Community Project. Report co-sponsored by (SC)2. March 8.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, J. Mjin Cha, Nick Graetz, Raka Sen. 2022. Discussion Draft: Securing Climate Justice Investments in New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. University of California, Berkeley. March.

Nick Graetz, Kevin Ummel, and Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2022. Small-Area Analyses Using Public American Community Survey Data: A Tree-Based Spatial Microsimulation Technique. Sociological Methodology. 52(1):53-74. DOI: 10.1177/00811750211057572.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2021. How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer. The Guardian. December 9.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2021. Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson on Science Fiction and Reclaiming Science for the Left. Jacobin. November 21.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, Erika Kitzmiller, and Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2021. Now Is Our Chance to Rebuild U.S. Public Schools To Address Both Climate Change and Racial Inequality. TIME. July 30.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Erika Kitzmiller, Kira McDonald, David I. Backer, Neilay Shah, Ian Gavigan, Xan Lillehei, A. L. McCullough, Al-Jalil Gault, Emma Glasser, Nick Graetz, Rachel Mulbry, and Billy Fleming. 2021. “Transforming Public Education: A Green New Deal for K–12 Public Schools.” Philadelphia: Climate and Community Project. Report co-sponsored by (SC)2. July 15. 

Johanna Bozuwa, Thea Riofrancos, Sarah Knuth, Patrick Robbins, Suzanne Baker, A.L. McCullough, Kira McDonald, Chelsea Mackin, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Nick Graetz, Neilay Shah. 2021. “A New Era of Public Power: A Vision for New York Power Authority in Pursuit of Climate Justice.” Philadelphia: Climate and Community Project. Report co-sponsored by (SC)2. April 22.

Cohen, Daniel Aldana, Rachel Mulbry, A. L. McCullough, Kira McDonald, Nick Graetz, Billy Fleming. 2021. A Green New Deal for Public Housing to Deliver Racial, Economic, and Climate Justice. Philadelphia: Climate and Community Project. Report co-sponsored by (SC)2. April 19.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Kira McDonald, Nick Graetz, Erika Kitzmiller, David I. Backer, and Billy Fleming. 2021. A Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools. Philadelphia: Climate and Community Project. Report co-sponsored by (SC)2. March 13.

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Mark Paul. 2020. The Case for Social Housing. The Justice Collaborative, Data for Progress. November 2.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. With Joe Biden, There’s Still a Case for Climate Optimism. Novara Media. October 28.

Mark Paul and Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. The Green New Deal’s Public Infrastructure Should Be Funded by the Public. Dissent. September 21.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. New York City As “Fortress of Solitude” After Hurricane Sandy: A Relational Sociology of Extreme Weather’s Impact on Climate Politics. Environmental Politics. (30)5: 687-707. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2020.1816380.

Pre-print, no paywall.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2020. Green New Deal: liberdade para viver. Piseagrama (Brazil). August.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Flemming, and Xan Lillehei. 2020. Memo: Critical Components of a School District Covid Education Plan. Prepared for the Office of Jamaal Bowman. August.

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos. 2020. Latin America’s Green New Deal. NACLA Report on the Americas. (52)2: 117-121. DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2020.1768726.

—Cohen and Riofrancos co-editors of the journal’s 11-article special section on the Green New Deal in the Americas. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2020.1768726

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. How a Green Stimulus Would Lift Up Workers and Communities and Rebuild Our Infrastructure. The Century Foundation. May 29.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. Confronting the Urban Climate Emergency: Critical Urban Studies in the Age of a Green New Deal. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. (24)1-2 (February-April): DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739435.

Graetz, Nick, Kevin Ummel, and Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. Small-Area Analyses Using Public American Community Survey Data: A Tree-Based Spatial Microsimulation Technique. Social Science Research Network. Uploaded April 13. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3574679.

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Daniel Kammen. 2020. Climate crisis will deepen the pandemic. A green stimulus plan can tackle both. The Guardian. April 20. Reprints: National Catholic Reporter, Oklahoma Observer; translation to Portuguese: EcoDebate.

J. Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Mark Paul, Julian Brave NoiseCat. 2020. Voters Want a Green Stimulus. Data for Progress. March 24.

Bozuwa, Johanna, J. Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodman, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M. Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul, Raj Patel, Thea Riofrancos. 2020. A Green Stimulus to Rebuild our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress. Medium. March 22.

—Our letter inspired, and was cited in, a congressional letter urging green stimulus that was signed by 60 representatives in the House of Congress.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos. 2020. We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy. Jacobin. March 14.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos, Billy Fleming, Jason Ganz. 2020. Green Industrial Policy for Domestic and Global Climate Justice is Popular. Polling Memo. Data for Progress. March 13.

Steven Highside, Billy Fleming, Hayley Richardson, Emily Mangan, Scott Goldstein, Ben Fried, Ashley Pryce, Natalee Rivera, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Xan Lillehei, Katie Lample, Nick Graetz, Julian Brave NoiseCat. 2020. A Green New Deal for City and Suburban Transportation. Data for Progress. March.

John Ray, Billy Fleming, Steven Highside, Emily Mangan, Katie Lample, Xan Lillehei, Julian NoiseCat, Sean McElwee, Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. Voters Want a Better Transit System for America. Data for Progress. March.

2019

Billy Fleming, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Nick Graetz, Katie Lample, Alexandra Lillehei, Kira McDonald, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul. 2019. Public Housing At Risk: Adaptation through a Green New Deal. Research Report. Data for Progress. December 16.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Kira McDonald, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Nick Graetz, Katie Lample, Alexandra Lillehei, Mark Paul, Anunya Bahanda. 2019. A Green New Deal for American Public Housing Communities. Research Report. Data for Progress. November 22.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2019. Strike for Sunshine. The Nation. November 20.

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Julian Brave NoiseCat. 2019. Bernie and AOC’s Green New Deal for Public Housing Act Would Transform America. The Nation. November 14.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Kira McDonald, Nick Graetz, Mark Paul, Alexandra Lillehei, Katie Lample, Julian Brave NoiseCat. 2019. A Green New Deal for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Communities. Research Report. Data for Progress. November 14.

Sean McElwee, John Ray, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Julian Brave NoiseCat. 2019. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act Can Stand Up to Scrutiny. Polling Memo. Data for Progress. November 14.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2019. A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. New York: Verso.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Tara Raghuveer, Sean McElwee, Jack Nicol, John Ray. 2019. The Green Homes Guarantee is Popular. Polling Memo. Data for Progress. October 19.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. A Successful Climate Plan Must Also Tackle the Housing Crisis. The Guardian. October 1.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Sean McElwee. 2019. Americans Want to Live in a Just Society. Blog. Data for Progress. September 25.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. A Green Homes Guarantee Is Popular. Blog. Data for Progress. September 18.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. Mitigate Housing and Climate Risk through a Green New Deal for Housing. Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. September 10.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos. We Need a Global Green New Deal. Tribune. July 22.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. Eco-Apartheid is Real. The Nation. July 26.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Thea Riofrancos. 2019. For a Global Green New Deal. In Road Map to a Green New Deal: 3.N Internationalism. Common Wealth. London, July, pp 4-11.

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kevin Ummel. 2019. Follow the Carbon: The Case for Neighborhood-Level Carbon Footprints. Policy Digest. Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. July 2.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. Review: Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds, by Sara Ann Wylie. In American Journal of Sociology, (124)6, 1862-1864.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. “Working Class Environmentalism.” In Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom, and Sharon Marcus eds. Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kasia Paprocki, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Rebecca Elliott and Liz Koslov. 2019. The Useful Discomfort of Critical Climate Social Science. In SSRC Items. May 7.

Jennifer L. Rice Daniel Aldana Cohen Joshua Long Jason R. Jurjevich. 2019. Contradictions of the Climate‐Friendly City: New Perspectives on Eco‐Gentrification and Housing Justice. In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12740

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. A Green New Deal for Housing. Jacobin. February 8.

—Reprinted in Portside; translated to Italian in Jacobin Italia.

Alyssa Battistoni and Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2019. AOC’s Green New Deal Starts Strong. Jacobin. February 7.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2019. A Green New Deal can give us the freedoms to allow humanity to flourish. The Guardian. February 7.

—Reprint of Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2019. The Green New Deal’s Five Freedoms. Jacobin. February 6.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2019. Only a Green New Deal Can Save Us. A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future. Jacobin. February 5.

—Reprinted as Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. 2019. Only a Green New Deal Can Save Us. Jewish Currents.February 5.

2018

Cohen, Daniel Aldana. 2018. Water Crisis and Eco-Apartheid in São Paulo: Beyond Naive Optimism About Climate-Linked Disasters. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. “Spotlight on Parched Cities, Parched People” series. November.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2018. Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Dissent magazine. November 14.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2018. Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point: Recent news commentary ignored the UN climate report’s cautiously optimistic findings. The Nation. November 2.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2018. Review: Marxist Thought and the City, by Henri LefebvreCity & Community (17)2: 525-527. 

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2018. Review: Benjamin R. Barber. Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global WarmingJournal of World-Systems Research. (24)1: 227-229.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2018. Climate Justice and the Right to the City. White Paper. Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Penn Institute for Urban Research, and Perry World House.

2017

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. Working Class Environmentalism. Public Books, The Big Picture series. November 16.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. The Last Stimulus. Jacobin magazine. New York: Summer, 86-98.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. New York Mag’s Climate Disaster Porn Gets It Painfully Wrong. In Jacobin. July 10.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. It Gets Wetter. Review essay on Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and cli-fi more generally. In Dissent magazine. New York: July 1, 6-11.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. “The Other Low-Carbon Protagonists: Poor People’s Movements and Climate Politics in São Paulo.” Pp 140-157. In Miriam Greenberg and Penny Luce eds. The City is the Factory: Social Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. Urban Policy and Planning for Climate Change. In Alison Bain and Linda Peake eds. Urbanization In A Global Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016

Wachsmuth, David, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Hillary Angelo. 2016. Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability: Social equity and global impacts are missing from measures of cities’ environmental friendlinessNature 536:7618, 391-393.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. The Rationed City: The politics of water, housing, and land use in drought-parched São PauloPublic Culture. 28:2: 261-289.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. Petro Gotham, People’s Gotham. In Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro eds. Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Berkeley: University of California Press: 47-54. Excerpt published on The Leap blog.

  • Interview on Forecast: A Podcast about Climate Science and Climate Scientists, hosted by Michael White, Nature’s climate science editor.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. Interviews with Rebuild by Design’s Working Group of Experts. [These are Henk Ovink, Eric Klinenberg, Eric Pieterse, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Fernando de Mello Franco, and Maarten Hajer.] Public Culture. 28:2: 317-350.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. Time to Pull the Plug on Urban Fossil Consumption. Review of Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso Books blog. May 17.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. Consumo Consciente. In Dissent magazine special issue on climate justice. Spring 2016, p. 152.

2015

The Urban Green Wars: Struggling for working-class control of cities is crucial to bringing down carbon emissions. In Jacobin symposium on Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything. 11 December 2015.

Interview: How Shorter Work Hours Can Help the Climate and Women’s Equality. Interview with Tom Malleson. Labor Notes. 18 March, 2015 (and March print issue, pp. 10-11). Republished by In These Times and Truth-Out.

Forget Fertility, Get FeralReview essay of George Monbiot’s Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life. Public Books. 1 February 2015.

2014

Seize the Hamptons: We should all get the chance to escape the city and enjoy leisure — without the hefty ecological footprint. Jacobin. New York: October 2014, 150-159.

New York’s Two Sandys. With Max Liboiron. Metropolics. 30 October 2014.

Is Climate Change Big or Small? Dissent magazine online. New York: 13 November, 2014.

Older work, organized by theme

CLIMATE POLITICS IN CITIES

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. It Gets Wetter. Review essay on Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and cli-fi more generally. In Dissent magazine. New York: July 1, 6-11.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. “The Other Low-Carbon Protagonists: Poor People’s Movements and Climate Politics in São Paulo.” Pp 140-157. In Miriam Greenberg and Penny Luce eds. The City is the Factory: Social Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2017. Urban Policy and Planning for Climate Change. In Alison Bain and Linda Peake eds. Urbanization In A Global Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. Petro Gotham, People’s Gotham. In Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro eds. Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Berkeley: University of California Press: 47-54. Excerpt published on The Leap blog.

The Rationed City: The politics of water, housing, and land use in drought-parched São PauloPublic Culture. 28:2: 261-289. [Note, this article, along with the whole journal, will be available to anyone without charge from May-July 2016.]

Interviews with Rebuild by Design’s Working Group of Experts. [These are Henk Ovink, Eric Klinenberg, Eric Pieterse, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Fernando de Mello Franco, and Maarten Hajer.] Public Culture. 28:2: 317-350. [Note, this series of interviews, along with the whole journal, will be available to anyone without charge from May-July 2016.]

Time to Pull the Plug on Urban Fossil Consumption. Review of Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso Books blog. May 17.

Consumo Consciente. In Dissent magazine special issue on climate justice. Spring 2016, p. 152.

The Urban Green Wars: Struggling for working-class control of cities is crucial to bringing down carbon emissions. In Jacobin symposium on Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything. 11 December 2015.

Seize the Hamptons: We should all get the chance to escape the city and enjoy leisure — without the hefty ecological footprint. Jacobin. New York: October 2014, 150-159.

New York’s Two Sandys. With Max Liboiron. Metropolics. 30 October 2014.

A Most People’s Climate Movement? On the climate justice movement in Brazil. NACLA Report on the Americas. New York: April 2013.

CLIMATE POLITICS BEYOND CITIES

Dissenting Climate: After Paris, What’s Next? With Kate Aronoff. [Podcast episode.] In Dissent magazine online. 13 January 2016.

Interview: How Shorter Work Hours Can Help the Climate and Women’s Equality. Interview with Tom Malleson. Labor Notes. 18 March, 2015 (and March print issue, pp. 10-11). Republished by In These Times and Truth-Out.

Forget Fertility, Get FeralReview essay of George Monbiot’s Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life. Public Books. 1 February 2015.

A Most People’s Climate Movement? On the climate justice movement in Brazil. NACLA Report on the Americas. New York: April 2013.

Is Climate Change Big or Small? Dissent magazine online. New York: 13 November, 2014.

Review: From Precaution to Profit: Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol by Brian J. Gareau. 2013. Journal of World-Systems Research. 19:2, 312-314.

Democracy or Eco-Apartheid. Center for Humans and Nature. New York: 6 February 2013.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Counterpower’s Long Game. A review of Manuel Castells’ Networks of Outrage and Hope. Public Books. New York: 17 March 2013..

NEW YORK POLITICS

In fall 2011 and spring 2012, I helped edit and contributed to the Social Science Research Council’s Possible Futures web forum on the Occupy movement. Some pieces I wrote, with a focus on coalition composition, affect, and race:

A Mouse Eye View of Eviction Night. SSRC, Possible Futures, 23 November 2011.

Amorous Analogies: How #OWS Connects the Dots. SSRC, Possible Futures, 23 December 2011.

Were March 1st Demonstrators Occupy’s Comeback Kids? SSRC, Possible Futures, 9 March 2012.

SOUTH AMERICAN POLITICS

In 2006, I spent seven months in South America—a little in Venezuela, mostly in Bolivia—working as a freelance writer. In 2008, I returned to Bolivia with a grant for one month. I have since spent lots of time in Brazil—but have only just now started writing journalism about it (see above). (Two of the magazine pieces about Bolivia have been used in Canadian university courses on development. I mention it because I think it’s usually for the best when long-form journalism and academia overlap.)

Bolivia’s Water Fight: Will violence in Bolivia deny water rights to its indigenous people? The Walrus online. October 2008.

Coca Si, Cocaina No. The struggle to legitimize the coca leaf. The Walrus. January 2009.

After the Water Revolution. Corporate Knights. October 2006.

Maude Barlow primes the clean-water pump: Every drop in bucket matters to those fighting privatization. Toronto Star. 3 September 2006.

Power to the Presidents. Maisonneuve online. 17 February 2006.

CANADIAN POLITICS

Whose Burden? Taking on Canada’s charities. THIS Magazine. March-APril 2008.

Blown into Proportion. The Walrus. October 2007.

Caped Crusade: Ward 12’s black Superman hopes to save ’hood with fewer cops, more community TLC. NOW Magazine. October 2006.

Michael Ignatieff: A wolf in sheep’s clothing. New Internationalist. December 2005. (These “worldbeaters” in the New Internationalist are always published unsigned. I’m happy to take credit for this one.)

BOOK REVIEWS AND ESSAYS

The Dictatorship of No Alternatives: Progressive economists are rethinking markets. The Walrus. January 2009.

A Tale of Two Giants Bound by Pacifism. Toronto Star. 6 January 2008.

Sewing the Seeds of a New World Agriculture. Canadian Dimension. November 2008.

Review: Blue Covenent: The Global Water Crisis. The Walrus. December 2007.

Reading Between the Lines: In French letters and politics, racism is all the rage. Maisonneuve online. October 2005.

FICTION

Cowgirl in Reverse. Toronto Quarterly. Issue 6. 2010.

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