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Book SynopsisA devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.
Trade Review"The Anthropocene abounds in environmental parables made real, and harrowing. Oliver Milman has delivered a gripping and especially unnerving one: what happens when the bugs go? The top of the food chain is a happy place to be only so long as there remains a food chain to stand on top of, and, as Milman deftly illustrates, in the face of die-offs too widespread to closely track, we are rushing headlong into a precarious and uncertain future." -- David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth
"Perhaps you read a news item in the last few years about collapsing insect populations. Oliver Milman has done the hard work to put such fragments in context, and the result is a book that will be a classic on the day it’s published. Our world is literally unimaginable without the insects that make it work, and so heeding the lessons in this volume is essential to our collective future." -- Bill McKibben, author of Oil and Honey
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The Insect Crisis is elegantly written, admirably nuanced, and terrifyingly important." -- Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
"In this well-researched, engagingly written, and refreshingly measured book, Oliver Milman reveals the profound and complex implications of insect decline. A necessary and timely wake-up call full of fascinating and often unexpected detail." -- Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia
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[The Insect Crisis] is a sombre book, a catalogue of loss and unravelling, but also a lucid homage to the fabulous utility of insects and a critique of our fixation with backbones…If its visions are sometimes mournful, there is also something wondrous in Milman’s revelation of our fragile dependency on insect life as well as its beauty and strangeness." -- Edward Posnett - The Guardian
