The ApocaDocs 2010 Year In Review (With Punchlines)
The top 100 stories from the 1629 news items recorded by the ApocaDocs in 2010. [A feature that Desdemona is sorely tempted to emulate.]
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
from BBC:
World’s biodiversity ‘crisis’ needs action, says UN
Eight years ago, governments pledged to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, but the pledge will not be met. The expansion of human cities, farming and infrastructure is the main reason… “The urgency of the situation demands that as a global community we not only reverse the rate of loss, but that we stop the loss altogether and begin restoring the ecological infrastructure that has been damaged and degraded over the previous century or so,” [Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)] said. The UN says that as natural systems such as forests and wetlands disappear, humanity loses the services they currently provide for free. … ApocaDoc Jim: Nature should strongly consider charging for their services!
Thanks, Jim, for the link. We also just YIRs with the same basic criteria for 2008 and 2009. The comparisons are not pretty, because they're so hard to distinguish between. We all could see what was happening, if we were paying attention.
We are such clever fools.