Mark Lynas

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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Aubrey Meyer

  • 17 October 2005

10 people - Does this ex-musician hold the answer to the world's climate crisis?

Stop making the planet history

  • 04 July 2005

G8: Climate change - The unpalatable truth is that raising people out of poverty worsens their impact on the earth. There is a potential solution, argues Mark Lynas, but will the west buy it?

Nuclear power: a convert

  • 30 May 2005

Mark Lynas was sure it would be a disaster - and then he looked at the alternatives

Bring in the police to save the planet

  • 09 May 2005

Election: the future - environment
Just as Thatcher broke the miners, so the government now needs to act tough in order to break the road hauliers and other anti-greens, argues Mark Lynas

A helping hand for big oil

  • 11 April 2005

Observations on overseas aid

Trouble ahead. Ancient peoples ravaged their environments, and paid a heavy price. Mark Lynas wonders if we will learn from the past

  • 07 February 2005

Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive
Jared Diamond Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 575pp, £20
ISBN 0713992867

Deadly heat

  • 21 June 2004

The Long Summer: how climate changed civilisation
Brian Fagan Granta Books, 284pp, £20
ISBN 1862076448

Traffic must flow, on pain of death

  • 31 May 2004

Observations on Swiss police

NS Essay - Global warming: is it already too late?

  • 17 May 2004
  • 6 comments

A forthcoming film that shows New York drowning may be based on dodgy science. But as the world gets hotter, climate change really could run out of control and we would be powerless to stop it

Give Blair another chance

  • 05 April 2004

Mark Lynas proposes that we should forgive the PM for Iraq if he can redeem himself by embracing a big new idea for tackling both climate change and global poverty

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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