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Truth was defined by those who shouted loudest, or had the money to buy it.

— Dave Goulson Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021)

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‘Normal’ is different for every generation.

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One man’s weed is another man’s wildflower.

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If one looks at the bigger picture, modern farming is part of a staggeringly inefficient, cruel and environmentally damaging food-supply system.

Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021)

Insecticides kill all insects, not just the ones that they are aimed at, whatever the doublethinkers who manufacture agrochemicals may ask you to believe.

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These are beneficial creatures, and should be celebrated, not persecuted and poisoned in some misguided psychotic urge to kill anything that dares to thrive.

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