title: The world that became ruined. Our cognitive incapacity to perceive large-scale and long-term changes is a major obstacle to rational environmental policies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at University of Helsinki, Finland. ilkka.hanski@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: Ilkka
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hanski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D013997:Time Factors