Accumulation Quote by Mark Lynas

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

— Mark Lynas

Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.

— Mark Lynas

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