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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Political will is a renewable resource
- Mark Lynas
- 01 May 2008
- 1 comment
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
Why Britain doesn't need nuclear power
- Mark Lynas
- 17 January 2008
- 16 comments
It is shameful the UK languishes at the bottom of the renewable energy league despite our huge resources
Bali to Copenhagen
- Mark Lynas
- 03 January 2008
- 13 comments
Bali convinced me that agreeing a new phase of Kyoto is by far the most important objective for climate-change stabilisation
The price of a living forest
- Mark Lynas
- 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
An environmental utopia - up to a point
- Mark Lynas
- 11 October 2007
- 7 comments
We downtrodden Brits often look enviously at Scandinavian countries as models of genteel social democracy...
Neutrality is cowardice
- Mark Lynas
- 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


