Insects are tiny but have a big role to play in our planet's future

'We depend on insects to pollinate the flowering plants that provide much of our food.'

Climate-change sceptics and anti-vaccine ideologues reject scientific findings.

Theirs is an old tradition. When her ground-breaking book, Silent Spring, appeared in 1962, Rachel Carson was reviled. Chemical companies accused her of spreading heresy, but, at least, she wasn't burned at the stake, as Giordano Bruno was, or shown the instruments of torture, like Galileo.