Damian Carrington catalogues the environmental events of 2022 (Environmental review of 2022: another mile on the ‘highway to climate hell’, 30 December), which he sees as symbolising the “climate breakdown that humanity is careering towards”. He rightly notes that it’s not just our climate that’s breaking down catastrophically, but nature wholesale – with the World Wide Fund for Nature’s Living Planet report 2022 (it would be better titled the Dying Planet report) recording a 69% loss of all wildlife populations over the past half century.
Over that same 50-year period, our human population has more than doubled – a key driver of both climate change and biodiversity loss conspicuously absent from the article. Not least the event of humanity topping 8 billion last year on 15 November.
