From Silent Spring to Silent Crisis — How humanity is on the road to wiping out one million species

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The devastating impact we have on this planet has been obvious for some decades. In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote her seminal work ‘Silent Spring’, which documented the adverse effects of indiscriminate use of pesticides. Along the way we have had a number of other environmental issues: from ozone layer depletion to the…