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 4. R fails to identify an audience that can be persuaded to make a difference
 5. The material results of R have been dismal
 
+Since the 1990s, the green movement has been on the back foot. There have of
+course been many green successes on the local scale. But, in stark contrast to
+the 1960s and 1970s, when the green lobby succeeded in delivering strong
+government legislation to protect clean air, water, and establish nature
+reserves, in the last thirty years, most of the key social-scale demands of the
+green movement have not been met, and even some of those earlier successes have
+been partially rolled back.
+
+- Tropical deforestation is accelerating
+- Plastic pollution is increasing at an accelerating rate
+- Public infrastructure is more, not less, car-dependent
+- Overfishing is intensifying
+- Green New Deal is nowhere to be seen
+- Water pollution has gone backwards (in the UK at least)
+- Energy transition shows no signs of starting
+- Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing at an accelerating rate
+
 Good rhetoric does four things:
 
 1. Accurately diagnoses the root causes of a serious problem