The Looming Disaster – American Scientist

Book Review: Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. James Gustave Speth.

Drawing on his decades of experience as a distinguished leader of the environmental movement, James Gustave (“Gus”) Speth has written a brilliantly insightful and extraordinarily useful book, Red Sky at Morning. (Among Speth’s accomplishments are that he cofounded the Natural Resources Defense Council, chaired the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality, advised presidents Carter and Clinton on environmental issues, founded and headed the World Resources Institute, led the United Nations Development Programme and won Japan’s prestigious Blue Planet Prize; he is currently dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale.) The book’s thesis is that there is an urgent need to mount an “Environmental Revolution.”

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