Mark Lynas (born 1973) is an English writer, journalist and environmental activist focusing on climate change. She is a contributor of New Statesman, The Ecologist, Granta and Geographic, and > The Guardian and The Observer of newspapers in the UK; he also worked on the movie The Age of Stupid. He was born in Fiji, grew up in Peru and the United Kingdom and has a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Oxford, England. He has published several books including Six Degrees: Our Future on the Hot Planet (2007) and Gods Species: Saving the Planet in Human Age (2011). He has stated "I think there is a 50-50 chance we can avoid a devastating global temperature rise."
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Main jobs and publications
In 2004, Lynas' High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis was published by Macmillan Publishers on the Picador trail. He also contributed to a book entitled Collins, which presents the before and after pictures of some of the natural changes that have taken place in the world in recent years. , including the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, in addition to a gloomy outlook on the effects of human actions on the planet.
In January 2007, Lynas published the Gem Carbon Counter, which contains instructions for calculating people's personal carbon emissions and recommendations on how to reduce their impact on the atmosphere.
In 2007, he published Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, a book detailing the progressive effects of global warming in some of the planet's ecosystems, from 1 degree to 6 degrees and further up the average temperature of the planet. Special coverage is given to positive feedback mechanisms that can dramatically accelerate climate change, perhaps putting the climate on the path of escape. As a possible final scenario, the release of methane hydrate from the bottom of the ocean can replicate the event of the end Permian extinction. This book won the Royal Society's science books about the 2008 awards.
In 2008, National Geographic released a documentary based on Lynas's book, titled Six Degrees Could Change the World.
In 2010, Lynas published an article in New Statesman titled "Why We Keep Green Getting Wrong" and the same year was a major contributor to the British Channel 4 Television program called "What the Green Movement Got Wrong. " In this he takes a line similar to environmentalists like Patrick Moore, BjÃÆ'¸rn Lomborg, Stewart Brand, and Richard D. North, who explains that he now feels that some of his previously held beliefs are wrong. For example, he suggested that opposition by environmentalists, such as himself, for the development of nuclear energy has accelerated climate change, and that GE crops need to feed the world.
This last position was attacked as degrading and naive by some developing world commentators, including those featured in the Channel Four debate after the program aired. A number of experts also criticized Lynas's factual error in contributing to the film. British environmentalist George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian that Brand and Lynas present themselves as heretics. But their comfortable fictions combine with new ideas of thought: corporations, thinktans, neoliberal politicians. True heretics are those who remind us that social and environmental progress is impossible unless power is confronted. Since this writing, George Monbiot no longer opposes nuclear power as an alternative to sources of pollution such as coal.
In July 2011, Lynas published in the UK a book titled God Species: How the Planet Can Survive from Human Age . It was also published in the US by National Geographic in October 2011 as The God Species: Saving the Planet in Human Age (ISBN 978-1426208911). Lynas argues that when the Earth has entered Anthropocene, and as such humans alter the planet's climate, the bio-geochemical cycle, the ocean's chemistry and the color of the sky, as well as reducing the number of species. Based on the concept of planetary boundaries, he proposed some controversial strategies among the environmental community, such as using nuclear power and the Integral fast reactor to reduce carbon emissions and geoengineering to reduce inevitable global warming; or genetically engineered (GMO) to feed the world and reduce the environmental impact of agriculture. In 2012, Mark Lynas was awarded a Paradigm Award by the Breakthrough Institute in recognition of his intellectual leadership at Anthropocene.
"To maintain nuclear power"
In January 2012, Lynas published an article titled In nuclear power defenses , where he stated that "nuclear provides most of the current low-carbon electricity in the UK - by as much as 70%, while avoiding emissions of 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.This is why I want to see more nuclear power in the UK and elsewhere, to avoid more carbon emissions ". In September 2012, Lynas wrote a follow-up article in the Guardian entitled "Without nuclear, fighting against global warming is as good as loss."
In 2013, Lynas publishes Nuclear 2.0: Why the Green Future Requires Nuclear Power. Lynas is featured in the pro-nuclear documentary 2013 Pandora's Promise. The fourth generation reactor research program is developing the kind of nuclear power described in Pandora's Promise.
Convert to support GMO
In a January 2013 lecture to the Oxford Farming Conference, Lynas details his conversion from an anti-GMO food movement organizer in Europe to become tech supporters. He admitted "... in 2008, I was still writing screeds in the Guardian attacking GM science - though I did not do academic research on this topic, and had very limited personal understanding I do not think I've ever read peer reviewed papers about biotechnology or plant sciences... "He apologized for being involved in field-test vandalism of genetically engineered plants, stating that" anti-science environmentalism is becoming increasingly inconsistent with my pro-science environmentalism related to climate change. " Lynas criticized organizations previously linked to him, including Greenpeace and organic trafficking groups such as the British Land Association, for ignoring scientific facts about the safety and benefits of genetically modified crops as opposed to their ideology and proclaiming it was "completely wrong to against GMOs. "
Ecomodernist Manifesto
In April 2015, Lynas joined a group of scholars in publishing the Ecomodernist Manifesto . Other authors are: John Asafu-Adjaye, Linus Blomqvist, Stewart Brand, Barry Brook. Ruth DeFries, Erle Ellis, Christopher Foreman, David Keith, Martin Lewis, Ted Nordhaus, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Rachel Pritzker, Joyashree Roy, Mark Sagoff, Michael Shellenberger, Robert Stone and Peter Teague
Appearance
In 2017, Lynas appeared at the 17th European Skeptical Congress (ESC) in Old Town Wroc? Aw, Poland. The congress is organized by the SceptykÃÆ'³w Polskich Club (Polish Skeptical Club) and? EskÃÆ'½ club skeptics? Sisyfos (Czech Skeptical Club). Here he is a speaker along with Marcin Rotkiewicz and TomÃÆ'¡? Moravec on the topic of genetically modified organisms.
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Bibliography
Books
- High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (2004). Picador. ISBN: 978-0312303655 (384 pages).
- Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (2007; 2008 in the US). ISBN: 978-0-00-720905-7 (358 pages).
- Carbon Counter (2010). Collins. ISBN: 978-0007248124 (192 pages).
- God Species: Saving the Planet in Human Age (2011). National geographic. ISBN: 978-1426208911 (288 pages).
- Nuclear 2.0: Why the Green Future Requires Nuclear Power (2013). ISBN 978-1906860233 (112 pages).
- Seed Sciences: How we got it wrong in GMO (2018).
Essay and reporting
- Lynas, Mark (Feb-Mar 2014). "Double standard environment". Special features. Food War. Cosmos . 55 : 49. Ã,
References
External links
- MarkLynas.org - personal website
- "How do I know China is crushing a Copenhagen deal I'm in my room" - an article by Mark Lynas about negotiations in Copenhagen 2009
- Appearance in C-SPAN
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