What is the scale of this crisis, and how did we get here? “But culturally, we don’t value them.” And yet, he adds, “We need them far more than they need us.”Ĭivil Eats spoke to Milman about the scale of the insect crisis, how declining pollinator populations could harm the world’s most vulnerable communities, and the most promising steps people can take to turn the tide. “They are a foundation for our terrestrial ecosystems, they’re food for many of the animals that we cherish and admire, and they help pollinate around a third of the food we eat,” Milman says.
They break down waste, help recycle nutrients through the soil, and serve as food for birds, amphibians, and other animals in the same food chain humans are a part of. “We need them far more than they need us.”
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