An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes,… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way. — Mark Lynas Copy Share
At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger. — Mark Lynas Copy Share
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas Copy Share
“It would be easy to laugh this off were it not so obviously counterproductive. The idea that tackling climate change means accepting profound levels… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
“First, guilt-tripping doesn’t work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them a realistic… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. — Mark Lynas Copy Share
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas Copy Share
The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path… — Mark Lynas Copy Share
I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist. — Mark Lynas Copy Share
