Folder Resources Categories Folder Arlington Community Electricity Folder Campaigns Folder Climate Change (aka the Climate Crisis) Folder EcoFest Arlington Folder Home Energy: Efficiency & Renewables Folder Lawn & Garden Practices for a Healthy Ecosytem Folder Local Climate & Environmental Groups Folder Mystic Charles Pollinator Pathways Group [Resources] Folder Net Zero Folder News Sources: Climate, energy, environment Folder Pesticides (Impacts, Legislation) Folder Save the Alewife Brook (www.savethealewifebrook.org) Folder Sustainable Arlington Resources Folder Town Websites Folder Transportation Documents Search for documents Find by title or description… Search Reset default 1. Silent Earth: Averting the insect apocalypse Published on 08 December 2021 Modified on 31 January 2022 Tagged in EcosystemHealth, InsectApocalypse, InsectDecline, Pesticides Download Environmental Health News, 11.12.2021 As insects become more scarce, our world will slowly grind to a halt, for it cannot function without them. The author is Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at University of Sussex, UK, specializing in bee ecology. He has published more than 300 scientific articles plus seven books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers A Sting in the Tale (2013), the Garden Jungle (2019), and Silent Earth (2021). The link is to a modified extract from Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse, published September 2021 by HarperCollins.