Green Thinking
Climate change expert Mark Lynas, with the inside track on global warming and other environmental issues
Articles in Green Thinking
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How nuclear power can save the planet
- Mark Lynas
- 14 August 2008
- 12 comments
Increased use of nuclear (an outright competitor to coal as a deliverer of baseload power) is essential to combat climate change
Coming to a screen near you - me!
- Mark Lynas
- 31 July 2008
- 6 comments
How things have changed. Today, bookshops have entire shelves devoted to climate change. Television, too, has belatedly begun to catch up
A Green New Deal
- Mark Lynas
- 17 July 2008
- 5 comments
A "war economy" social mobilisation harnessed, this time not towards fighting fascism, but towards heading off ecological crisis
The global warming deniers
- Mark Lynas
- 03 July 2008
- 59 comments
The arguments of climate sceptics have largely been moulded by a far more sinister force - the US-based conservative think tanks
Why I was wrong about rationing
- Mark Lynas
- 29 May 2008
- 14 comments
A far simpler way to constrain carbon is to deal "upstream" with the few dozen companies that produce or import fossil fuels, rather than hitting tens of millions of consumers
Political will is a renewable resource
- Mark Lynas
- 01 May 2008
- 5 comments
Germany has 200 times more solar power installed than the UK - and this is not because Germany gets any more sun
Why Greens should vote for Ken
- Mark Lynas
- 03 April 2008
- 6 comments
Livingstone is by far the best-qualified candidate to run London - and from an environmental perspective, this is even more the case, argues Mark Lynas
Darling ducked the difficult decisions
- Mark Lynas
- 19 March 2008
- 7 comments
The Chancellor can no longer afford to ignore the contribution of international aviation and shipping to our carbon footprint
The good news from America
- Mark Lynas
- 14 February 2008
- 11 comments
Most environmentalists are indeed leftists who support the redistribution of wealth and believe in a simpler lifestyle
If the cap fits, share it
- Mark Lynas
- 31 January 2008
- 9 comments
Instead of setting up a new currency in carbon, cap and share utilises the oldest rationing system in the book: the price mechanism
