Whereas our national legislation was successful in curbing many environmental abuses domestically, efforts to protect the global environment have largely failed in the sense that the trends in environmental deterioration have not improved and that more of the same will not get us where we want to be in time to head off an era of unprecedented environmental decline. Big trouble is coming down the pike—and coming fast indeed. Thus, my use of the sailor's warning in the title "red sky at morning."
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