Don't waste time or money on 'Silent Earth'
Book reviews usually tell people, buy this new hardback. This article advises, don't bother reading Silent Earth, much less purchasing a copy; it's mostly a junk-science, anti-technology screed. Dave Goulson's book expands on Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's polemic against pesticides that helped rid Europe and the USA of deadly malaria, and now protect crops that require so much land, water, work, fertilizer and energy to grow and harvest that we dare not sacrifice them to hordes of hungry insects.- Sunday, October 3, 2021