Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas is a climate change writer and activist, author of the acclaimed book 'High Tide' and fortnightly columnist for the New Statesman. He was selected by National Geographic as an 'Emerging Explorer' for 2006, and blogs on www.marklynas.org
Articles by Mark Lynas
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Global Issues
The price of a living forest
- 22 November 2007
- 9 comments
The blunt economic truth is clear: deforestation can never be stopped as long as trees are worth more dead than alive
Environment
How to stop climate change: the easy way
- 08 November 2007
- 34 comments
Changing your light bulbs may not be enough to save a single polar bear, but there are things we can do collectively - and easily - that will really make a measurable difference in the battle against global warming. Mark Lynas has a three-part plan. Illustration by James Fryer
Environment
An environmental utopia - up to a point
- 11 October 2007
- 7 comments
We downtrodden Brits often look enviously at Scandinavian countries as models of genteel social democracy...
Books
Back to the future
- 27 September 2007
- 2 comments
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman Virgin Books, 336pp, £20
Politics
Green papers, white lies, hot air
- 20 September 2007
- 9 comments
Britain's policy on global warming remains mired in confusion, with too much debate and too little action. But there is a solution ...
Environment
Neutrality is cowardice
- 30 August 2007
- 12 comments
Journalists who provide a platform for climate change sceptics should summon up the courage needed to help defend the planet
Politics
The most important protest of our time
- 16 August 2007
- 41 comments
Aviation is the incendiary issue in environmental politics today. The campaigners at Heathrow are just the vanguard of a powerful new people's movement.
Politics
What’s really going on here
- 26 July 2007
- 18 comments
This is not "a poor summer". Britain has been experiencing its worst ever climate change event. We must recognise this and our own responsibility for the emerging crisis.
Environment
Even Greens need leaders
- 12 July 2007
- 51 comments
The Greens need a someone to lead them but they must have radical credentials
Environment
We're not facing up to the real housing crisis
- 28 June 2007
- 5 comments
If we don't limit the growth in population in this country, then we cannot hope to limit the impact of urban overcrowding and rural overdevelopment
