Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.

Prologue: 1980 -- part 1. Environmental challenges go global -- A world of wounds -- Lost in Eden -- Pollution and climate change in a full world -- part 2. And the world responds -- First attempt at global environmental governance --Anatomy of failure -- part 3. Facing up to underlying causes -- Ten drivers of environmental deterioration -- Globalization and the environment -- part 4. The transition to sustainability -- Attacking the root causes -- Taking "good governance" seriously -- The most fundamental transition of all -- Resources for citizens.

"Explains why current approaches to global environmental problems ... don't work now and won't work in the future ... Argues that dramatically differentand far-reaching actions by citizens and governments are now urgent"--jacket.