“I particularly dislike the high-profile switch-off campaigns where whole cities are plunged into darkness for an hour as a supposedly symbolic gesture about energy use. So is the implication that we all need to live in constant gloom to reduce… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
