2012: the year we did our best to abandon the natural world

Guardian: It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will take priority over an immediate concern, however trivial. I believe there has been no worse year for the natural world in the past half-century. Three weeks before the minimum occurred, the melting of the Arctic's sea ice broke the previous record. Remnants of the global megafauna – such as rhinos and bluefin tuna – were shoved violently...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/31/year-abandon-natural-world
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