California Environment

ARTICLES ABOUT CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENT BY DATE - PAGE 4

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S ENVIRONMENT At the Crossroads : Southern California mirrors the nation's environmental problems and the future holds both peril and promise. Experts look to the '90s as the Decade of Decision--a time when Southern Californians must choose between reclaming the best of nature or squandering what remains. : A Region Designed to Be Consumed

December 10, 1989 | Robert A. Jones, Columnist Robert A. Jones was a Times environmental writer for nine years. His column, On California, appears each week.

"I used to like this town . . . a long time ago. There were trees along Wilshire Boulevard. Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but good-hearted and peaceful. It had the climate they just yap about now. Little groups who thought they were intellectual used to call it the Athens of America. It wasn't that, but it wasn't a neon-lighted slum either." --Private detective Philip Marlowe talking about his hometown in "The Little Sister," by Raymond Chandler, 1949.

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