updated Tue. October 1, 2024
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Salon
April 24, 2018
As the environmentalist Mark Lynas pointed out in his book, Nuclear 2.0, when Japan shut down its nuclear plants after Fukushima, it started burning more natural gas and coal. “Looking at the air pollution mortality figures strongly suggests that it is untrue to say that nobody will die because of Fukushima,”Ãâà...
The Underground
April 20, 2018
The documentary features interviews with experts like environmental journalist Mark Lynas, biotechnology expert Alison Van Eenennaam, and many others. Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy and narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the film takes the viewers to many different parts of the world to explainÃâà...
Grist
April 11, 2018
As the environmentalist Mark Lynas pointed out in his book, Nuclear 2.0, when Japan shut down its nuclear plants after Fukushima, it started burning more natural gas and coal. “Looking at the air pollution mortality figures strongly suggests that it is untrue to say that nobody will die because of Fukushima,”Ãâà...
The Sofia Globe
April 9, 2018
Pseudo-science is dangerous.” For Singh, such phenomena as the GMO controversy call for conclusions that are evidence-based “as opposed to just being ideologically against anything that is genetically modified”. He is a big fan of Mark Lynas, formerly an activist who wrecked crops, who then looked intoÃâà...
AGDAILY
April 6, 2018
For that, the pair travel to Oxford, England, to speak with Mark Lynas, a well-known environmental radical from back in the day who has done an about-face on his stance toward GMOs. He has been on both sides of the ideological and scientific aisle, and gives poignant insight to the filmmakers as to whyÃâà...
New Scientist
April 3, 2018
Environmentalist Mark Lynas, who once destroyed GM crops and then made headlines by ending his opposition, is stepping up his call for reason to triumph. ac98a726. Tom Pilston/The Times. By Mark Lynas. Pro-science types, when they lambast those who campaign against genetically modified crops,Ãâà...
Genetic Literacy Project
March 29, 2018
If there is a braver or more morally conscientious person in Britain than Mark Lynas, I should be surprised. Or so I felt by the final page of Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs. It is a dull title for a gripping account of how Lynas turned from a pioneering protester against genetically modifiedÃâà...
The Times
March 25, 2018
Leaving the European Union and the strict regulations that prevent the UK from growing GM crops could be a chance for British farmers “to leave the anti-science fear-mongering in Brussels” and develop a “truly green” future for agriculture, Mark Lynas claims. There are calls to ease restrictions on theÃâà...
Penn State News
March 19, 2018
The documentary features interviews with experts like environmental journalist Mark Lynas, biotechnology expert Alison Van Eenennaam, consumer advocate Jeffrey Smith, TV scientist Bill Nye, and many others. The event is co-sponsored by the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State and PennÃâà...
The Times
March 18, 2018
If there is a braver or more morally conscientious person in Britain than Mark Lynas, I should be surprised. Or so I felt by the final page of Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs. It is a dull title for a gripping account of how Lynas turned from a pioneering protester against genetically modifiedÃâà...
The Rocky Mountain Goat
March 17, 2018
We felt pressured to sign an agreement with Trans Mountain in regards to our land, because our life would be quite disrupted otherwise if the project will go ahead. The book “6 Degrees,” by Mark Lynas, is explaining the state our planet is in; I would encourage everyone to read it. It's an eye-opener!
Genetic Literacy Project
March 17, 2018
Environmental campaigner [and journalist] Mark Lynas is set to release a new book next month which details his enlightening journey working behind the scenes with other ideologically driven activists - breaking the law and driving the grass roots campaign against farm biotechnology. It shows how heÃâà...
The Times
March 12, 2018
An attempt to steal Dolly the Sheep was foiled when campaigners realised they could not tell her apart from the rest of her flock. Mark Lynas, a former green activist, has revealed that in 1998 he nearly helped to kidnap the world's first cloned sheep, but the stunt was abandoned after they broke into her penÃâà...
The Times
March 11, 2018
To save your favourite articles so you can find them later, subscribe to one of our packs. Dismiss. Dolly the sheep, the world's first clone of an adult mammal, was the target of a kidnapping attempt by green activists opposed to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), a leading campaigner has revealed.
The Appalachian Online
February 21, 2018
According to Mark Lynas of Slate, Greenpeace – who falsely claim GMOs are unsafe for human consumption – first bussed in a group of farmers. Then, using them as cover, proceeded to destroy an entire field of golden rice. This is not OK, and it is actively dangerous. It is one thing to have a broad critiqueÃâà...
Genetic Literacy Project
February 5, 2018
Environmentalist and former anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas gave his famous speech at the Oxford Farming Conference stating explicitly: His anti-GMO views had been a form of denialism. And the state initiative campaigns led to major scientific organizations [PDF] issuing consensus statements on GMOs.
Genetic Literacy Project
January 8, 2018
[W]hat might a peace treaty look like? What might be the give and take on both sides of this enduringly fractious controversy? Here's my seven-point plan. ... Environmentalists accept the science of GMO safety, and scientists in return need to accept that politics matter in how scientific innovations areÃâà...
Agriculture.com
December 7, 2017
There is nothing progressive about trying to block progress. If you're a farmer who wants to make the best of your land both for yourself and for future generations, and if you believe the future can be better than the past, you are probably an ecomodernist, too. Mark Lynas is the author of several books on theÃâà...
CNN
August 31, 2017
Mark Lynas is a writer on climate change, and visiting fellow at the Alliance for Science at Cornell University. The opinions in this article belong to the author. (CNN) This is what climate change looks like. Entire metropolitan areas -- Houston in the United States and Mumbai in India -- submerged inÃâà...
CNN
June 2, 2017
Mark Lynas is a writer on climate change, and visiting fellow at the Alliance for Science at Cornell University. The opinions in this article belong to the author. (CNN) Withdrawing from the Paris climate accord is about the only predictable -- even rational -- move that President Trump has made since takingÃâà...
CNN
March 28, 2017
Mark Lynas is a writer on climate change, and visiting fellow at the Alliance for Science at Cornell University. The opinions in this article belong to the author. (CNN) In a rational world, people would take climate change more and more seriously as real-world evidence for its damaging effects mount.
Lincoln Journal Star
October 10, 2016
Armed with a machete, under cover of darkness, Mark Lynas and other environmental activists would march onto test plots for genetically modified maize, sugar beets and potatoes to hack them to pieces. “I destroyed them, because I believed there was something fundamentally unnatural, somethingÃâà...
Slate Magazine (blog)
January 3, 2013
If you fear genetically modified food, you may have Mark Lynas to thank. By his own reckoning, British environmentalist helped spur the anti-GMO movement in the mid-'90s, arguing as recently at 2008 that big corporations' selfish greed would threaten the health of both people and the Earth. Thanks to theÃâà...
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
Mark Lynas, a prominent environmental activist and the author of Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power, has argued that nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming and that any expectation that the popularized renewables will fulfill the earth's energy requirements isÃâà...
