Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas has is an environmental activist and a climate change specialist. His books on the subject include High Tide: News from a warming world and Six Degree: Our future on a hotter planet.
Articles by Mark Lynas
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Global Issues
The good news from America
- 14 February 2008
- 11 comments
Most environmentalists are indeed leftists who support the redistribution of wealth and believe in a simpler lifestyle
Environment
If the cap fits, share it
- 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
Environment
Why Britain doesn't need nuclear power
- 17 January 2008
- 17 comments
It is shameful the UK languishes at the bottom of the renewable energy league despite our huge resources
Environment
Has global warming really stopped?
- 14 January 2008
- 1717 comments
Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped
Environment
Bali to Copenhagen
- 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
Politics
Mark Lynas's Green Grid
- 13 December 2007
- 17 comments
Should the incremental approach of Kyoto be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Read the arguments for and against and vote in our climate choice poll
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
