Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Lynas

Endlich! Der Mitschnitt unserer Jubiläums-Sendung ist da!!! --- DÜNNES EIS --- - Selbstkritik und Selbstlob nach fünf, ja 5 Jahren Klimagazin im Freien Sender Kombinat - monatlich für eure Ohren und das dazwischen. - ab min 11: Kurzmeldungen & Veranstaltungshinweise: Wasser-Demo gegen rechts, neue Waldbesetzung bei Saarbrücken und mehr... - ab min. 20:30: im Gespräch mit dem Ökonom Thomas Dürmeier (Goliath Watch) über die Unzulänglichkeiten unserer Wirtschaftsweise - ab min 59:30: Auszüge aus dem Buch '6 Grad mehr - Die verheerenden Folgen der Erderwärmung' von Mark Lynas - ab 1h05min: Vorstellung der Einleitung des Texts "Der kranke Planet" von Guy Debord, in deutscher Übersetzung erstmalig erschienen in KOSMOPROLET Heft 6, 2022 - Wolfgang ist zurück! Hören Sie! Damit Sie sehen, was sie fühlen.

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On today's show we listen to the brand new thriller The Deadly Spark from debut novelist Roxie Key, plus following on from last week's climate chat we turn to non-fiction and Mark Lynas' book Our Final Warning. All that plus four brand new audiobooks available from the RNIB Library.

Mark Lynas writes popular science and covers lots of it. Listen to the podcast to learn more about what he thinks about nuclear power, climate change and Environmental issues. He has written books, most prominently, Six Degree if Climate Emergency [marklynas.org]. Mark is the co-founder of RePlanet which is liberating nature and elevating humanity through it's global chapters and campaigns. As an Alliance for Science fellow, Mark is passionate about solving poverty and food security issues in the world by using GMOs and other science based technologies in food.

In this episode, Chloe introduces herself and her personal journey to the Grange Project. Tom and Chloe then interview Mark Lynas (British author and environmental activist) about the current realities of our climate crisis - the fact that we're unlikely to maintain global warming to 1.5 degrees and the severe implications of reaching 2 degrees. Mark underscores the pivotal role humans play in controlling emissions and calls attention to the crucial role government policies play in this. The episode concludes with an inspiring call-to-action for listeners to get involved in advocacy and campaigning. Finally, Chloe and Tom reflect on the engaging discussion, reiterating the significance of combined efforts in fighting the climate crisis.Your HostsTom Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/Chloe Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-constable-24155821b/Our GuestMark Lynas is a prominent British author, journalist, and environmental activist known for his work on climate change and environmental issues. He gained international recognition as a vocal advocate of scientific evidence and technology in addressing global challenges. Lynas authored several influential books, including "Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency," which explored the potential consequences of global warming. Mark Lynas has been a powerful voice in the environmental movement, contributing to public awareness and the debate surrounding climate change and its impact on our planet.Website: https://marklynas.org, Twitter: https://twitter.com/mark_lynasGrange Project Contact & Social MediaEmail: hello@grangeproject.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/grange.project/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grangeprojectYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrangeProjectLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/Listen out for:[00:01:02] Tom interviews Chloe about her journey to becoming a co-founder of the Grange Project[00:08:43] Mark introduces himself and his many professional identities[00:13:55] We discuss how the world cannot hold to 1.5 degrees and the potential impacts of 2 degrees of warming[00:19:25] Mark talks about how humans have control over their emissions and the importance of government policy[00:26:50] A conversation about how the only thing that matters is collective efforts and holding our governments accountable[00:31:24] Ideas around how you can get involved in advocacy and campaigning[00:36:46] The ‘Wilder Podcast' closing questions: what is the one thing you would hope listeners would take away from this...

Hur kan vi inte ha gjort mer för att minska utsläppen? Trots över 30 år av kunskapspåfyllnad om människans påverkan på jordens temperatur fortsätter klimatutsläppen att öka globalt. 1988 bildades FN:s klimatpanel IPCC och två år senare kom forskarna med första utvärderingsrapporten - en sammanställning av klimatforskningen. 1992 var året då klimatkonventionen kom till, ett ramverk för åtgärder för att begränsa klimatförändringarna; Parisavtalet 2015 är en del av konventionen. FN:s första klimatmöte var 1995 i Berlin, följt av årliga "Conferences Of the Parties", konferenser mellan parterna, ”COP:ar" i olika värdländer. 90-talet startade med uppkavlade klimatärmar men vad hände sen?Mycket snack och lite verkstad medan utsläppen ökat och klimatförsenarna fått råda.1988 samlades forskare som svensken och klimatpionjären Bert Bolin och politiker som norska statsministern, tidigare miljöministern Gro Harlem Brundtland till möte i Toronto. Mötet slutade i en rekommendation att minska växthusgasutsläppen med 20 procent till 2005. Klotets reporter försöker hitta uppföljande journalistik om det missade målet 2005. Men hittar inget om att utsläppen istället hade ö k a t med över 25 procent till 2005. Vad gjorde makthavarna under de här åren av möten och missade utsläppsminskningsmål?Medverkande:Henning Rodhe, professor emeritus vid Stockholms universitet i kemisk meteorologi.Björn-Ola Linnér, professor vid Tema Klimatförändring, Linköpings universitet.George Monbiot, journalist, aktivist, kolumnist i The Guardian.Martin Hultman,docent i teknik-, vetenskaps- och miljöstudier vid Chalmers tekniska högskola i Göteborg.Mathias Fridahl, docent och klimatpolitikforskare vid Linköpings universitet.Litteratur som nämns i programmet:Sex grader - vår framtid på en varmare jord, av Mark Lynas, översatt av Stefan LindgrenClimate obstruction How denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet av Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman, Kirsti M. JylhäSkriv till oss! vet@sverigesradio.seReporter: Anna-Karin IvarssonProgramledare: Niklas ZachrissonProducent: Anders Wennersten

Pour ce seizième épisode de la saison 2, je reçois Alexis Bonon. Alexis fait du conseil en stratégie, mais ça n'est pas pour ça que je l'ai invité ! Alexis prépare un roman sur le climat, et là, ça m'a lourdement interpelé, d'où cette invitation. Avec Alexis, nous avons discuté de l'importance de la fiction pour décrire le monde du futur et aider nos contemporains à prendre le virage climatique. Pour Alexis, cela passe par la descritpion d'un futur dystopique, effrayant, donc, pour aider chacun à comprendre pourquoi nous sommes collectivement dans le déni, et quelles seront les conséquences de notre déni collectif. Pour ma part, je cherche à décrire à quoi pourrait ressembler un monde qui aurait pris le virage climatique. De quoi a-t-on parlé ? Consultant en stratégie à temps partiel, poète et écrivain Les vidéos de Jancovici, une baffe, une nouvelle piste de lecture du monde Une prise de conscience douloureuse qui est paralysante au début, puis libératrice La fameuse courbe du deuil : déni, la colère, le marchandage, la dépression puis enfin l'acceptation Se mettre en action et y trouver de l'énergie Estimer son empreinte carbone avec nosGEStesClimat.fr, pour voir en quoi je suis concerné directement Réduire l'avion, manger moins de viande, se déplacer différemment Le ROI (Retour sur Investissement) : ou comment choisir les gestes qui ont un impact maximal et exigent un effort minimal Voir des occasions de redécouvrir certaines choses plutôt que les considérer comme des privations Les réseaux sociaux pour partager sa vision du monde Partager sa vie entre son travail et l'écriture Écrire un roman pour parler du dérèglement climatique, du déni et du passage à l'action L'aspect systémique du problème : le capitalisme est-il une religion, et donc la décroissance un blasphème La technique, réponse supposée aux problèmes qu'elle a créé (et Jacques Ellul). C'est aussi une bataille d'imaginaires : changer d'imaginaire pour changer de comportement Dans le monde futur, que veut-on garder ? La santé ? Le numérique ? L'éducation ? Quelle source d'espoir pour Alexis ? L'opportunité de réinventer un nouveau système, plus proche du réel. Voir les autres qui eux aussi changent. Quelles lectures pour nos auditeurs ? Quelle conclusion ? Interrogeons le monde, les concepts qu'on nous refile, affrontons nos peurs ! Lectures et liens : Le profil LinkedIn d'Alexis Bonon — https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-bonon/ nosGEStesClimat.fr, pour estimer son empreinte carbone Le bluff technologique de Jacques Ellul — https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782818502273-le-bluff-technologique-jacques-ellul/ Au commencement était... une nouvelle histoire de l'humanité de David Graeber et David Wengrow — https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9791020910301-au-commencement-etait-une-nouvelle-histoire-de-l-humanite-david-graeber-david-wengrow/ Climat : dernier avertissement de Mark Lynas — https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9791030704228-climat-dernier-avertissement-urgence-climatique-mark-lynas/

The government announced its new energy strategy last week, outlining plans to tackle energy supply over the coming decades. In this edition of Costing the Earth, Tom Heap chairs a panel discussion which looks into the detail of the strategy, and asks what it will mean for both net zero targets and household bills. He is joined by a panel of experts: Roz Bulleid, Deputy Policy Director at the independent think tank Green Alliance; Chief Political Commentator at the i-newspaper, Paul Waugh; and environmental journalist, author and campaigner Mark Lynas. Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Emma Campbell

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A review of Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas, published by John G. Halstead on April 15, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Reviewed work: Mark Lynas, Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, HarperCollins Publishers (2020). In the new edition of his book Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, Mark Lynas argues climate change will be truly catastrophic. He claims that, at 4°C above pre-industrial levels, advanced industrial civilisation would be tottering (p. 168). At 5°C, humanity would cling on in small refuges surrounded by deserts, forests in flame and rising seas (p. 222). At 6°C, we face possible human extinction (p. 262ff). I am a fan of Lynas' other work on nuclear power and GM food. I have invited him to speak at several events. I recommended him as a guest for the 80,000 Hours podcast and introduced him to the team there. Like Lynas, I also think climate change is an important problem: I helped to set up the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund, which has moved millions of dollars to climate change charities. However, in my opinion, Six Degrees is very disappointing. Throughout, Lynas misinterprets evidence and ignores nuance. The consistent effect that this has is to bias his conclusions in a pessimistic direction. I shared this post with Mark Lynas before publishing. Thanks to Max Daniel and Abie Rohrig for comments. 1. Misinterpreted evidence Throughout Six Degrees, Lynas cites up-to-date peer reviewed science to support its claims. However, Lynas often misinterprets studies that are key to his conclusions, sometimes dramatically so. Moreover, he almost always fails to consider the extent to which people in the future might be able to adapt to climate change using new technology or increased wealth. I will discuss three examples. The first two are egregious, but are representative of how Lynas uses evidence in Six Degrees. The US Dust Bowl and crop yields Lynas provides this overview of Glotter and Elliot (2016): “When droughts are added into the picture, the future for food production looks even scarier. The authors of one recent paper analysed the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s and then factored in the temperature increases expected later this century from global warming. While the worst Dust Bowl years led to crop losses of up to a third between 1933 and 1939, add in four degrees of warming and the losses soar to 80% or more. Just the warming effect on its own would mean that a typical year would see yields equivalent to the terrible Dust Bowl year of 1936. The researchers warn in the paper's introduction that ‘damages at these extremes are highly sensitive to temperature, worsening by ~25% with each degree centigrade of warming.' For four-degree temperature rises, losses could therefore be reaching 100%, obliterating the entire harvest. These conclusions hold not just for maize in the central Dust Bowl area, but for wheat, soy and other crops across the Great Plains and Midwestern states. Four degrees of global warming, in other words, turns virtually the entire area that produces crops in the US into a Dust Bowl state.” [My emphasis] (p. 192) This misunderstands the Glotter and Elliott (2016) study in several important ways. Glotter and Elliott (2016) explore what the effects of warming would be on the assumption that dust bowl conditions - similar to the extreme droughts experienced in the US in the 1930s - reemerge. This study does not say that warming would cause dust bowl conditions to reemerge. Furthermore, it is simply not true to say that the study shows that the entire US harvest of maize, soy and wheat would be obliterated at 4°C. The actual findings of the study are shown below: The relevant parts of this Figure are the red bars and red dots. They show the yield loss assuming: 1930s D...

In Our Final Warning, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. He delivers a vital account of the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe. Is time is running out and what will happen if we fail to save our planet? Listen to his comprehensive researches and experiences.

This week we're reflecting on the regenerative power of nature. Salley Vickers discusses her new novel 'The Gardener' and how it grew out of her long affinity with trees and gardens. Environmentalist Mark Lynas gives us 'Our Final Warning' about climate change and outlines the bitter harvest we will reap if we ignore it. Ellie Marsh goes digging in the RNIB Library to bring us a crop of titles that focus on the environment.  Robert Kirkwood hears about some of the highs and lows of leading a more sustainable life from drummer turned farmer Chris Stewart.  And we return to Salley Vickers for the Books of Your Life.

Ahead of COP26 in November 2021, Anuradha Vittachi is in conversation with award-winning science author, Mark Lynas. What are real issues confronting the negotiators, and what is their chance of a successful outcome?

Nearly a decade ago, an influential review of climate-related studies found a 97% consensus about man's impact on climate change. Now a new review, led by Mark Lynas, has found a 99.9% consensus. Lynas says the science is so settled that "it is case closed." Republicans "undermining the case for action" are basing that entirely on politics, not science, he adds. Lynas discusses how "right-wing media" in the United States tends to offer "anti-scientific perspectives on climate change" and needs to start offering more "right-wing solutions." He also discusses how climate change reporting is evolving, and what to expect from COP26, a pivotal UN climate summit. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

A golf-ball sized lump of uranium can deliver more than enough power to cover all your lifetime energy use. To get the same energy from coal, you'd need 3,200 tonnes of the stuff — a mass equivalent to 800 adult elephants, which would go on to produce more than 11,000 tonnes of CO2. That's about 11,000 tonnes more than the uranium.Many people aren't comfortable with the danger posed by nuclear power. But given the climatic stakes, it's worth asking: Just how much more dangerous is it compared to fossil fuels?According to today's guest, Mark Lynas — author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (winner of the prestigious Royal Society Prizes for Science Books) and Nuclear 2.0. — it's actually much, much safer.We chose Mark to introduce the problem of climate change.Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interviewThis episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on August 20, 2020. If you want to hear more about climate change, head to the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed and check out our episode with Kelly Wanser. She founded SilverLining — a nonprofit organization that advocates research into climate interventions, such as seeding or brightening clouds, to ensure that we maintain a safe climate.#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climateSeries produced by Keiran Harris.

No Babble again this week due to a last minute production cock-up, so it's re-run time again. As the impacts of climate change are very much top of everyone's mind right now, we thought you might appreciate our chat about all things 'how buggered could the climate get anyway', with Mark Lynas (original broadcast: April 2020). Disclaimer: climate science moves fast, and there's dicussion in here about the potential for the gulf stream to slow down, which the news recently reported scientists are increasingly worried may be happening. Back in early 2020 Mark wasn't that worried about it. Bear in mind that that was then, when you listen to that bit. If the global pandemic is leaving you wanting more on the existential angst front, try dipping into chapter 6 of journalist and former activist Mark Lynas' new book, 'Our Final Warning', where you'll read that at six degrees of global heating "a wave of mass extinctions threatens life on earth". Theeeeeeere we go, that's the good stuff.The book, to an extent an updated version of 2007's groundbreaking 'Six Degrees', describes the most recent scientific understanding of what we can expect if carbon emissions don't fall rapidly and temperatures continue to rise. Or, in other words, the civilisation-ending shitstorm that's in the post if humanity doesn't get its act together PDQ.We chat to Mark about what's changed - good and bad - in the twelve years between the two books, what Covid-19 might mean for global emissions, and why, despite it all, he retains a sense of optimism.Sustainababble is your friendly environment podcast, out weekly. Theme music by the legendary Dicky Moore – @dickymoo. Sustainababble logo by the splendid Arthur Stovell. Ecoguff read out by Arabella. Love the babble? Bung us a few pennies at www.patreon.com/sustainababble. MERCH: sustainababble.teemill.com Available on iTunes, Spotify, Acast & all those types of things, or at sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble. Email us at hello@sustainababble.fish.

"Learning to Loath GMOs": A Critical Response to the New York Times   Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, July 27, 2021   In its July 19th issue, the New York Times Magazine published a brilliant piece of twisted pseudo-scientific propaganda. The essay, entitled “Learning to Love GMOs,” is truly stunning. Its author, journalist Jennifer Kahn, takes readers who would have little to no understanding of genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms (GMO) through a fictional labyrinth of out-dated and conflated GMO similitudes to an end point where readers might believe GMOs are really cool and there is nothing to be frantically worried about.    Kahn spins the story of Cathie Martin's research to develop a genetically engineered purple tomato high in the anti-oxidant anthocyacin as the work of a solo humanitarian to improve consumers' health by providing nutrient-rich GMO produce. What is missing from Kahn's equation is that the research was conducted at one of the world's oldest and most prestigious independent centers for plant science, the Johns Innes Centre (JIC) in the UK. The Centre, which is registered as a charity, lists over 500 employees and is funded by some of the largest proponents of genetic-modified plants, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. JIC's website includes purple tomatoes as one of its projects that combines “transcription factors, biosynthetic genes and iRNA [interference RNA] with the availability of natural tomato mutants.”  iRNA, or Post-Transcriptional Gene Slicing, is a method to silence certain genes the researchers desire to curtail their expression.     The Times article makes an effort to advance the flawed agro-chemical mantra of “substantial equivalence” without citing the term. The early acceptance of GMOs was largely based upon the unproven hypothesis of “substantial equivalence.” The USDA's adoption of this concept during Bill Clinton's first term in the White House gave GM seed companies a free pass to avoid submitting trial evidence to prove the environmental and health safety of genetically modified crops. Since the ruling claims that GMOs are fundamentally identical genetically to their natural counterparts, no compliance of safety regulations should necessarily apply. Therefore Big Ag firms did not have to worry over strict regulatory hurdles, which otherwise apply to other products such as pharmaceutical drugs, processed foods, pesticides, cosmetics and chemical additives.    However, during the past decade a flurry of research has shown that the “substantial equivalence” hypothesis is patently false. Alexandria University in Egypt, the Permaculture Research Institute and the Norwegian Center for Biosafety each found genetically modified crops to be fundamentally different. In addition, studies have confirmed that nutrient levels in traditional, organically raised grown crops are substantially higher than GM varieties. New technological methods to create concise profiles of a food's molecular composition, notably “omics,” were not available in the early 1990s when Clinton wore the mantle as America's first biotech president. Omic technology destroyed the Big Ag's industry's arguments to support the lie about substantial equivalence. For example, Kings College London published a study in Scientific Reports of Nature revealing unquestionable genetic consequences between GMO Roundup and non-GMO corn. The differences include changes in 117 proteins and 91 metabolites.[1]   Despite “substantial equivalence” having been debunked, the erroneous hypothesis continues to linger in pro-GMO propaganda. However, in Kahn's recent essay, she attempts to shift attention away from the early generation of GMOs, which were engineered solely to sell more toxic pesticides, and emphasize GMO's potential for increasing nutritional health and to advance medicine. In order to add a bit of balance, Kahn quotes James Madison University professor Alan Levinovitz who accurately described one fundamental criticism, among many others, against GMOs. “With genetic engineering there's a feeling that we're mucking about with the essential building blocks of reality,” Levinovitz stated. “We may feel OK about rearranging genes, the way nature does, but we're not comfortable mixing them up between creatures.”     But most disturbing is Kahn's failure to make any mention o the trail of environmental disasters and disease risks due to consuming genetically modified foods. She completely whitewashes the matter; she prefers we may forget that Monsanto's soy and corn, which now represent the majority of these crops grown in the US, was developed solely to allow farmers to spray highly toxic pesticides without injuring the crops. These crops contain notable concentrations of the pesticides that then find their way into numerous consumer food products including baby foods. Nor should we forget that Round-Up grown foods may be destroying people's microbiome.  Last year, researchers at the University of Turku in Finland reported a “conservative estimate that approximately 54% of organisms in our microbiome are “potentially sensitive” to glyphosate. Despite her pro-GMO advocacy, if Kahn's conscience had led her to take a moral high road, she could have at least apologized on Monsanto's behalf for the trail of death and disease the company's glyphosate has left in its wake. The company has yet to atone despite losing three trials with $2.4 billion fines, repeated appeal losses, and being ordered to pay $10.5 billion in settlements. To date Monsanto's glyphosate poisoning has been identified with the suppression of essential gut enzymes and amino acid synthesis, gluten intolerance, disruption of manganese pathways, neurological disease, cancer, amyloidosis and autoimmune disease. Her New York Times article would have better served the improvement of public health as a warning rather than an applause to appease companies such as Bayer/Monsanto and Syngenta. And shame on the New York Times' editors for permitting such biased misinformation to find its way into print.    Kahn is eager to cite findings showing GMO benefits without indicating her sources. She tells us that environmental groups have “quietly walked back their opposition as evidence has mounted that GMOs are both safe to eat and not inherently bad for the environment.” Kahn doesn't mention who these groups might be. She reframes the Philippine story of the destruction of genetically engineered Golden Rice; yet around that time even the pro-industry magazine Forbes published an article questioning Golden Rice's viability and noting that its benefits are only based upon unfounded hypotheses. As for its risks to health, GM Watch in the UK points out the work conducted by David Schubert at the Salk Institute that the rice might potentially generate Vitamin A derivatives that could “damage human fetuses and cause birth defects.”   Kahn, who should be acknowledged as a highly respected science journalist and teaches journalism at the University of California's Berkeley campus, happens to be a contributing author for the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP) at the University of California at Davis, a public relations operation sponsored by the agro-chemical industry.  Monsanto/Bayer, Syngenta and DuPont are among GLP's industry partners.  It is one of the most frequently quoted sources of cherry-picked information by pro-GMO advocates and journalists. In our opinion, it is perhaps one of the most financially compromised and scientifically illiterate organizations, founded and funded to disseminate pro-GMO propaganda in order to prop up public support for GMOs and genetic engineering in general. In effect, some universities now act as private industry's lobbyists. This becomes a greater scandal when the university is a public institution receiving public funding.  GLP and its east coast partner, Cornell University's Alliance for Science, largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, serve as the GMO industry's clearing houses for public relations to spin science into advertising, propaganda and character assassination of GM opponents.   The Genetic Literacy Project is a key collaborator with another food industry front organization, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). ACSH has nothing to do with actual health science. It has been described by the independent corporate financial watchdog organization Sourcewatch as a thinly veiled corporate front that holds “a generally apologetic stance regarding virtually every other health and environmental hazard produced by modern industry, accepting corporate funding from Coca-Cola, Syngenta, Proctor Gamble, Kellogg, General Mills, Pepsico, and the American Beverage Association, among others.” ACSH also favors toxic pesticides, the use of biphenol A in products, cigarettes and hydrofracking.  It is closely aligned with pseudo-medical front organizations that criticize alternative and natural health modalities, such as Quackwatch and the Science Based Medicine network.    GLP sources a couple thousand corporate-friendly studies favoring GMO safety.  One review of over 1,700 studies, known as the Nicolia Review, for a time was the most cited source making the broadest claims for GMO safety.  However subsequent independent and unbiased reviews of Nicolia's analysis concluded that many of these studies were tangential at best and barely took notice of anything related to crop genetic engineering or GMOs. Many studies are completely irrelevant from a value-added perspective because they have nothing to do with GMO safety. Furthermore, other studies in Nicolia's collection conclude the exact opposite of their intention and give further credibility to GMOs environmental and animal and human health risks. When Nicolia published his review, he intentionally omitted and ignored scientifically sound research that directly investigated GMO safety and found convincing evidence to issue warnings.  For example, one peer-reviewed publication by over 300 independent scientists declared that there is no scientific consensus that GM crops and food are safe.  Not surprisingly, there is no mention of this study in the Nicolia Review.   It is no secret that Monsanto and Big Ag have significant influence over UC-Davis's agricultural department and divisions.  The bogus economic studies trumped up by the Big Ag cartel to defeat California's GMO labeling bill Prop 37 were performed at UC-Davis and then publicized through the GLP. Gary Ruskin, who has been filing Freedom of Information Act requests, has publicly expressed deep concerns that UC Davis is acting as a financial conduit for private corporations and interests to develop and launch PR attacks against academics, professors, activists and other institutions who oppose those same corporate interests.     For GMO opponents, the name Mark Lynas, may send shivers down the spine. As soon as any journalist or researcher mentions Lynas' name approvingly, one can be certain which camp the author represents.  You can be assured you will be reading words on dirty laundry washed in even dirtier water. Therefore when Kahn quotes Lynas as if he were an unbiased authority about GMOs, we know we have boarded the wrong train and will reach a destination of distorted scientific facts and self-righteous corporate praise.    The public watchdog group US Right to Know describes Lynas as “a former journalist turned promotional advocate for genetically engineered foods and pesticides who makes inaccurate claims about those products from his perch at the Gates Foundation-funded Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS).” Lynas has accused those who would inform the public about Round-Up's carcinogenic properties as conducting a “witch hunt” by “anti-Monsanto activists” who “abused science.”  Lynas has denied his role as a shill for Big Ag. However, a decade ago, The Guardian acquired a private memo from the pro-biotechnology organization EuropaBio about its initiative to recruit “ambassadors” to preach the GMO gospel. Mark Lynas was specifically named in the document alongside then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a prime candidate to pressure European agencies who were skeptical about GMO claims, promises and health and environmental risks. In short, Lynas has been one of Big Ag's most invaluable foot soldiers for over a dozen years.    Similar to the Genetic Literacy Project, the Cornell Alliance for Science does not conduct any agricultural research; yet its tentacles to attack GMO opponents are far reaching in the media. CAS was launched in 2014 after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granted the alliance $5.6 million in start-up monies. The public relations Alliance makes the unfounded claim to represent “balanced” research about genetic engineered products.  One of its missions is to influence the next generation of agricultural scientists to embrace GMO science. For CAS, as for Bill Gates, GMOs are the only food solution for Africa's future. Five years ago, organic New York farmers mobilized to pressure the Trustees of Cornell University to evict CAS from the campus and halt its influence over the school's prestigious College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.   One argument Kahn wants us to buy into is that there were mistakes made during the early roll out of GMOs in the 1990s. But, somehow, mysteriously and without any solid evidence, we are supposed to believe that these same companies now engineering new generations of crops have learned their lessons. All that has really changed has been the genetic technology for altering plant genomes. The same mind-set that only technology and the quest for food dominance remain. After hundreds of thousands of dollars were flushed away during a genetically modified wheat project, a retired professor of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph in Canada remarked:   "We – scientists and the public – are so malleable and gullible (or is it because researchers and research administrators are just desperate for money?), that we swallow and become promoters of the mantra that GM is somehow going to feed the world: by resolving the monumental threat of burnt toast? Or browning in cut apples? Or flower color in carnations? Really? For shame. Let's be honest. The one and only reason these people, corporations, and governments are funding this sorry use of [lab] bench space is because it may yield a proprietary product."   Following Lynas' lead, Kahn wants us to believe that genes exchanged between different plants is common in nature and therefore manipulating genes between species with genetic engineering tools, such as CRISPR, should not worry us. Yes, plants have acquired genes from other organisms in the past – the far distant past – according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. However, it is so exceedingly rare that these should be regarded as anomalies without any correlation whatsoever to the millions of different genes available to bio-engineer new plant organisms. This has been one of Lynas' pet arguments on his bully pulpit since turning traitor on his former Greenpeace activists and joining Monsanto's legions.    It may also be noted that Jennifer Kahn is an active participant in CRISPRcon, a forum dedicated to “the future of CRISPR and gene editing technology applications in agriculture, health, conservation and more.” Among the organization's supporters are Bayer, the Innovative Genomics Institute, Cornell Alliance for Science, Corteva Agriscience and the United Soybean Board.  A mission noted on its website is expressed in one of its mottos, “The public doesn't trust GMOs. Will it trust CRISPR?” This is a public relations pitch that permeates her Times article.    It is important for independent investigators and researchers to identify and publicize the background of cloaked public relations shills posing as unbiased journalists in mainstream news sources. Kahn's New York Times piece is an example of a propaganda effort without credibility; it is an attempt to disingenuously manipulate the narrative so more Americans will love GMOs. In the wake of the agrichemical industry's efforts to bolster favorable images of GMOs and more recently CRISPR editing technologies, the mainstream media willingly rolls out a red carpet. No equal publishing space is awarded to the scientific critics of genetic engineering who uncover the flaws in the industry's public research. Consequently, journalists such as Mark Lynas and Jennifer Kahn are the norm rather than exception. Today the lesson is clear that money, power and influence sustain the lies and deceit of private industry.  Take on any cause critical of GMOs and agro-chemical agriculture, and Big Ag will come after you. Kahn is seemingly just one of many other journalists the GLP and Cornell Alliance can turn towards to advance genetic engineering's mythologies.    Seven years ago, 70 percent of Americans, according to a Consumer Reports National Research Center survey, did not want genetically modified organisms in their food. In 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that only five percent of Americans said GM foods were better for one's health – which about makes up the number of people who are in one way or another invested in the agrichemical industry. Still over half believe they endanger health. Yet too much has been invested into agro-biotechnology to expect GMOS to disappear at any time. As the public increasingly turns away from genetically modified organisms in their produce, we will expect new volleys of industry propaganda like that penned by Jennifer Kahn to dangle new carrots. For Kahn, one of these rotten carrots is to improve nutritional content. Yet, similar to the Golden Rice, this will need to be proven beyond being an infomercial. We can also expect to hear ever wilder and more irrational claims about how GMO-based agriculture might reduce CO2 greenhouse pollution and save humanity. And we expect much of this PR campaign to be backed by the World Economic Forum's full-throttle Great Reset invasion. In other words, out of desperation to reach global food dominance, the agro-chemical industry backed by western governments will be declaring a full food war against the peoples of the world.  It is time for us to unlearn any illusory attachment we might have to Big Agriculture and learn to loath GMOs.

Det bruges her, der og alle vegne… Men hvad betyder BÆREDYGTIGHED rent faktisk? Det mv., får du svar på her; inkl. hvorfor det virkelig haster med det bæredygtige samfund! Medvirkende: Steen Valentin (lektor og centerleder på Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy på CBS) samt citater med Carsten Jensen fra podcastserien: Carsten Jensen i krise (af Iben Maria Zeuthen, Mikkel Clausen og Jacob Heldt).Nalle Kirkvåg klippede og sound designede. Som vanligt er produceret af Polykrom Media i samarbejde med RU Radio.  Link til andre kilder mv. i podcasten:Reportage med Hans Christensen: Haarup Maskinfabrik i SilkeborgSigne Venneberg anbefaling af hønsehold Supertanker: Staten er ikke bæredygtig Youtuberen Simone Wulff, der vil forsøge sig med at leve bæredygtigtDMJX bygger nyt campus i København.Følge pengene : i Højhus på gyngende grundom, at A.P. Møller Holdings køb af Faerch-gruppen i 2020Data fra Miljøministeriet: 163.000 tons mad i supermarkedernes affaldscontainereBrundtlandrapportenVagn Korsgaard  (nul-energi-huse) Geotermi Artiklen på CSR.dk: Mærsk: slut med CO2 i 2050  Det Økonomiske Råd : En CO2-afgift vil være et skift til en bedre og billigere klimapolitikMark Lynas og hans bog Six Degrees – Our Future on a Hotter Planet.Danmarks Statistik: apps til at undgå madspildInfo om bomuld: faktalink. Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp & Erik Thomas Johnsons bog Forretning for fremtiden der citeres fra er (støttet af Industriens Fond.). Tjek evt. også: Klimaforskere bider negle over tipping points, som kan udløse en lavine. Her er de vigtigste…  

Det bruges her, der og alle vegne… Men hvad betyder BÆREDYGTIGHED rent faktisk? Det mv., får du svar på her; inkl. hvorfor det virkelig haster med det bæredygtige samfund! Medvirkende: Steen Valentin (lektor og centerleder på Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy på CBS) samt citater med Carsten Jensen fra podcastserien: Carsten Jensen i krise (af Iben Maria Zeuthen, Mikkel Clausen og Jacob Heldt).Nalle Kirkvåg klippede og sound designede. Som vanligt er produceret af Polykrom Media i samarbejde med RU Radio.  Link til andre kilder mv. i podcasten:Reportage med Hans Christensen: Haarup Maskinfabrik i SilkeborgSigne Venneberg anbefaling af hønsehold Supertanker: Staten er ikke bæredygtig Youtuberen Simone Wulff, der vil forsøge sig med at leve bæredygtigtDMJX bygger nyt campus i København.Følge pengene : i Højhus på gyngende grundom, at A.P. Møller Holdings køb af Faerch-gruppen i 2020Data fra Miljøministeriet: 163.000 tons mad i supermarkedernes affaldscontainereBrundtlandrapportenVagn Korsgaard  (nul-energi-huse) Geotermi Artiklen på CSR.dk: Mærsk: slut med CO2 i 2050  Det Økonomiske Råd : En CO2-afgift vil være et skift til en bedre og billigere klimapolitikMark Lynas og hans bog Six Degrees – Our Future on a Hotter Planet.Danmarks Statistik: apps til at undgå madspildInfo om bomuld: faktalink. Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp & Erik Thomas Johnsons bog Forretning for fremtiden der citeres fra er (støttet af Industriens Fond.). Tjek evt. også: Klimaforskere bider negle over tipping points, som kan udløse en lavine. Her er de vigtigste…  

Humanity has emitted over 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, raising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from 280 to 417ppm. Every year, we add another 50 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent, meaning that in 20 years we will double our total emissions. There are signs that global emissions are plateauing, and many governments around the world have penned ambitious commitments to reach net zero. However, talk is cheap, and many plans hinge on dubious assumptions around the role of bioenergy with CCS for example. There has been a shift in the climate debate with by and large an abandonment of the “denier” position and a growth in the lukewarmist camp, which acknowledges the reality of anthropogenic climate change but minimizes its consequences. In a previous episode with Mark Lynas, we explored what 1-6 degrees of warming looks like in terms of its impacts on humanity and the environment. Today, we do our best to understand the probabilities of reaching 3+ degrees of warming. How has climate modeling held up over the years? How likely are phenomena like methane clathrates to act as a significant positive feedback mechanism? Will the climate stabilize if and when we reach zero emissions? Zeke Hausfather is a climate scientist and energy systems analyst whose research focuses on observational temperature records, climate models, and mitigation technologies. He was the senior climate analyst at Project Drawdown, and the US analyst for Carbon Brief. He has master's degrees in environmental science from Yale University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Ph.D. in climate science from the University of California, Berkeley.

At his talks, the award-winning journalist Mark Lynas often asks his audience to imagine what would happen if we had a magic wand that could solve climate change. Should we wave it? Most people say no. This, he believes, is a real problem for making progress. To deal with climate change, we need to get serious about prioritizing effective solutions over ones that fit the environmentalist narrative of human sin and the need for atonement. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Mark Lynas discuss tribalism in the environmentalist movement, the need for an optimistic account of how societies can deal with the climate crisis, and how to effectively argue for real solutions. A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams and Rebecca Rashid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Binu Singh is kinderpsychiater. Ze behandelt er vooral kinderen van 0 tot 3 jaar. Daniel Biltereyst schreef een boek over de geschiedenis van de filmcensuur in België. Mark Lynas schetst onze toekomst: hoe ziet de wereld eruit mocht de gemiddelde temperatuur op aarde stijgen met één graad. Per hoofdstuk doet hij er een graadje bij. Over paddestoelen zijn altijd interessante dingen te vertellen.

Gabe and Rick converse with best selling author Mark Lynas about his most recent book, ‘Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency’. Mark Lynas is a visiting fellow at Cornell University, an author, journalist and environmental activist who focuses on climate change. He is a contributor to The Guardian, NY Times, Washington Post, and CNN. He is the author of several books on the environment, including High Tide, Six Degrees, The God Species, Nuclear 2.0 and Seeds of Science.

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Walter A. Davis back to the podcast! Dr. Walter A. Davis is Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He is an actor and playwright, as well as psychoanalyst and theoretician. His many books include Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre. Pluto Press, London, 2007; Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11. Pluto Press, London, 2006; Get the Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993; and Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. www.walteradavis.com Check out this recent article by Dr. Davis "None dare call it fascism" at The Philosophical Salon: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/none-dare-call-it-fascism/ Mentioned in this episode: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump edited by Bandy Lee, MD: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250179456 Our Town by Thornton Wilder: https://www.thorntonwilder.com/our-town Justin Frank, MD: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561477/trump-on-the-couch-by-justin-a-frank-md/ Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet: https://www.marklynas.org/2020/06/new-book-our-final-warning-six-degrees-of-climate-emergency/ Please note: according to David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet (2020), human population is expected to reach 11 billion by 2100: https://www.netflix.com/se-en/title/80216393 Enjoy my previous discussion with Dr. Davis RU19: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/professor-emeritus-walter-davis/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more! http://www.drvanessasinclair.net If you enjoy Rendering Unconscious, please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl The song at the end of the episode is "Are you doing the work angelic?" Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Joachim Nordwall. From the album Message 23 available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com Image: Portrait of Dr. Walter A. Davis https://www.walteradavis.com/works/

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency - new book with guest Mark Lynas. Was the frightening weather of summer 2020 partly due to shutting down our cars, ships, and planes? UK scientist Chris Smith with new findings and a doorway to save ourselves during these wrenching changes.

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency - new book with guest Mark Lynas. Was the frightening weather of summer 2020 partly due to shutting down our cars, ships, and planes? UK scientist Chris Smith with new findings and a doorway to save ourselves during these wrenching changes.

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency - new book with guest Mark Lynas. Was the frightening weather of summer 2020 partly due to shutting down our cars, ships, and planes? UK scientist Chris Smith with new findings and a doorway to save ourselves during these wrenching changes.

The Covid-19 crisis has dominated every aspect of our lives for the last few months. So much so that it is easy to forget another crisis that has been raging for the last number of decades - the climate crisis. But our reaction to Covid-19 might just give us a glimpse into the possibilities of a greener, cleaner future, one that shows us that we can make change for the greater good and for a better future. But are we running out of chances to act? Mark Lynas, environmental writer, visiting fellow with the Cornell Alliance for Science at Cornell University and author of ‘Our Final Warning: 6 Degrees of Climate Emergency’ joins Jonathan to discuss. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

A golf-ball sized lump of uranium can deliver more than enough power to cover all of your lifetime energy use. To get the same energy from coal, you’d need 3,200 tonnes of black rock — a mass equivalent to 800 adult elephants, which would produce more than 11,000 tonnes of CO2. That’s about 11,000 tonnes more than the uranium. Many people aren’t comfortable with the danger posed by nuclear power. But given the climatic stakes, it’s worth asking: Just how much more dangerous is it compared to fossil fuels? According to today’s guest, Mark Lynas — author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (winner of the prestigious Royal Society Prizes for Science Books) and Nuclear 2.0 — it’s actually much, much safer. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Climatologists James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha calculated that the use of nuclear power between 1971 and 2009 avoided the premature deaths of 1.84 million people by avoiding air pollution from burning coal. What about radiation or nuclear disasters? According to Our World In Data, in generating a given amount of electricity, nuclear, wind, and solar all cause about the same number of deaths — and it's a tiny number. So what’s going on? Why isn’t everyone demanding a massive scale-up of nuclear energy to save lives and stop climate change? Mark and many other activists believe that unchecked climate change will result in the collapse of human civilization, so the stakes could not be higher. Mark says that many environmentalists — including him — simply grew up with anti-nuclear attitudes all around them (possibly stemming from a conflation of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy) and haven't thought to question them. But he thinks that once you believe in the climate emergency, you have to rethink your opposition to nuclear energy. At 80,000 Hours we haven’t analysed the merits and flaws of the case for nuclear energy — especially compared to wind and solar paired with gas, hydro, or battery power to handle intermittency — but Mark is convinced. He says it comes down to physics: Nuclear power is just so much denser. We need to find an energy source that provides carbon-free power to ~10 billion people, and we need to do it while humanity is doubling or tripling (or more) its energy demand. How do you do that without destroying the world's ecology? Mark thinks that nuclear is the only way. Read a more in-depth version of the case for nuclear energy in the full blog post. For Mark, the only argument against nuclear power is a political one -- that people won't want or accept it. He says that he knows people in all kinds of mainstream environmental groups — such as Greenpeace — who agree that nuclear must be a vital part of any plan to solve climate change. But, because they think they'll be ostracized if they speak up, they keep their mouths shut. Mark thinks this willingness to indulge beliefs that contradict scientific evidence stands in the way of actually fully addressing climate change, and so he’s helping to build a movement of folks who are out and proud about their support for nuclear energy. This is only one topic of many in today’s interview. Arden, Rob, and Mark also discuss: • At what degrees of warming does societal collapse become likely • Whether climate change could lead to human extinction • What environmentalists are getting wrong about climate change • And much more. Get this episode by subscribing: type 80,000 Hours into your podcasting app. Or read the linked transcript. Producer: Keiran Harris. Audio mastering: Ben Cordell. Transcriptions: Zakee Ulhaq.

Mark Lynas is a science writer and author of numerous books on the environment including High Tide, Six Degrees, The God Species, Nuclear 2.0 and Seeds of Science. His most recent book is ‘Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency" In this book Mark summarizes thousands of IPCC source material studies and lays out degree by degree the human and environmental implications of our warming world. Mark has demonstrated a principled committment to following where the science leads him. He was a prominent anti-GMO activist who changed his mind after after studying the scientific consensus supporting the safety of GMO's. Mark was a co-authot of the Eco-Modernist Manifesto and is currently a visiting fellow with the Cornell Alliance for Science at Cornell University, which engages in pro-science advocacy and research around the world. “Science adjusts its views based on what is observed. Faith avoids observation so that belief can be preserved.” Tim Minchin

Preview of SHIFT episode 2: Mark Lynas was once a leading anti-GMO Greenpeace activist, and then came to embrace GMOs. (Visit http://shiftpodcast.co to get early access to full episode) Follow us on Twitter for update: http://twitter.com/hearshift

Mark Lynas tells us about 'Our Final Warning - Six Degrees of Climate Emergency' (Starts at 0.45) Joanna Toye has a new shop girls book, this time the WW2 saga 'Heartache for the Shopgirls' (19.10) After her passing, we explore some books written by Dame Vera Lynn available from RNIB (35.14) And we return to Mark Lynas for the books of his life (47.00)

Bright Simons, founder and president of mPedigree; Whitney Phillips, Syracuse University; Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol; Joanne Miller, University of Delaware; John Cook, George Mason University and moderator Mark Lynas discuss the nature and appeal of conspiracy theories and how to deal with them.

More than 100 vaccine efforts are currently underway in the global push to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization. Which are most likely to work? And how long will it take? Science writer Mark Lynas and AfS Fellow Modesta Nnedinso Abugu take a look at the five most promising candidates.

If the global pandemic is leaving you wanting more on the existential angst front, try dipping into chapter 6 of journalist and former activist Mark Lynas' new book, 'Our Final Warning', where you'll read that at six degrees of global heating "a wave of mass extinctions threatens life on earth". Theeeeeeere we go, that's the good stuff.The book, to an extent an updated version of 2007's groundbreaking 'Six Degrees', describes the most recent scientific understanding of what we can expect if carbon emissions don’t fall rapidly and temperatures continue to rise. Or, in other words, the civilisation-ending shitstorm that's in the post if humanity doesn't get its act together PDQ.We chat to Mark about what's changed - good and bad - in the twelve years between the two books, what Covid-19 might mean for global emissions, and why, despite it all, he retains a sense of optimism.Sustainababble is your friendly environment podcast, out weekly. Theme music by the legendary Dicky Moore – @dickymoo. Sustainababble logo by the splendid Arthur Stovell. Ecoguff read out by Arabella. Love the babble? Bung us a few pennies at www.patreon.com/sustainababble. MERCH: sustainababble.teemill.com Available on iTunes, Spotify, Acast & all those types of things, or at sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble. Email us at hello@sustainababble.fish.

In June last year the UK government committed us all to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. To reach that ambitious target we're going to have to change the way we travel, heat our homes and farm our food. Tom Heap is joined by an expert panel to measure our progress and gauge our chances of reaching net zero. Tom's joined by physicist Helen Czerski of University College London, James Murray, editor of Business Green and the author of Our Final Warning, Mark Lynas. Producer: Alasdair Cross

Ich möchte mit dieser Episode anregen – vielleicht auch ein wenig provozierend – über Begriffe nachzudenken:  Natur Umwelt Umweltschutz Umwelt und Wirtschaft Anthropozän In welcher Form wir diese Begriffe interpretieren, stellt sich als fundamentale Weichenstellung heraus, wie wir mit unserer Zukunft umgehen. »Ich habe mich oft gefragt: 'Was sagte der letzte Bewohner der Osterinsel, der gerade dabei war, die letzte Palme zu fällen?' Schrie er wie moderne Holzfäller: 'Wir brauchen keine Bäume, sondern Arbeitsplätze!'? Oder sagte er: 'Die Technik wird unsere Probleme schon lösen, keine Angst, wir werden einen Ersatz für das Holz finden'? Oder vielleicht: 'Wir haben keinen Beweis, dass es nicht an anderen Stellen auf der Osterinsel noch Palmen gibt, wir brauchen mehr Forschung, der Vorschlag, das Abholzen zu verbieten, ist voreilig und reine Angstmacherei'?«, Jared Diamond Es macht auf sehr anschauliche Weise deutlich, wie sehr wir als Individuen auf die Probleme fokussiert sein können, die aus unserem Job, unserer Rolle in der Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft entspringen. So fokussiert, dass wir völlig übersehen, dass wir durch den immer angestrengteren Versuch, unser Unternehmen, unsere Familie, unseren Staat aufrecht zu erhalten gerade die dafür notwendigen Fundamente zerstören.  In dieser Episode werden wir von Alexander von Humboldt hören: »Alles ist Wechselwirkung« und über das Verhältnis von Wirtschaft und Natur: »Naturmenschen und Menschen früher Zivilisationen lebten in der Vorstellung einer geradezu grenzenlosen Fläche. [...] Es gab immer einen anderen Platz, den man aufsuchen konnte, wenn die Dinge zu schwierig wurden; entweder weil die Umwelt oder die sozialen Strukturen im bisherigen Lebensraum zerstört wurden. […] Besonders Ökonomen sind größtenteils gescheitert mit den Konsequenzen dieses Übergangs von einer offenen zu einer geschlossenen Welt zurechtzukommen.«, Kenneth Boulding Was ist dieses – von Boulding, McLuhan und anderen eingeführte – »Spaceship Earth« (Raumschiff Erde), und wie kann es uns diese Idee weiterhelfen?   Die Erde photographiert von der Apollo 8 Mission (1968) Dann ist der Begriff der »Umwelt« an der Reihe. Macht dieser Begriff (und die traditionelle Umweltbewegung) heute überhaupt noch Sinn, oder verstellte er den Blick auf die Tatsache, dass wir in ein neues Erdzeitalter, das Anthropozän eingetreten sind und damit völlig neu über unser Verhältnis zur Welt nachzudenken haben? »Wir waren immer verrückt, aber wir hatten nicht die Fähigkeiten die Welt zu zerstören. Jetzt haben wir sie.«, Nassim Taleb Was wir angerichtet haben, fällt auf uns zurück. Niemand wird uns dabei helfen. »Die Natur ist nicht länger am Steuer des Planeten, wir sind es. Es liegt in unserer Hand, was passieren wird.«, Mark Lynas Was folgt aus dieser Aussage? Zunächst die Erkenntnis, dass ich in dieser Episode viele Türen öffne, viele Fragen aufwerfe und hoffe, zum Nachdenken und zur Diskussion anzuregen. In späteren Folgen, werde ich versuchen, verschiedene dieser Themen wieder aufzunehmen, auch in Gesprächen mit Gästen. Referenzen Jared Diamond, Kollaps, Warum Gesellschaften überleben oder untergehen, Fischer (2012) Andrea Wulf, Alexander von Humboldt und die Erfindung der Natur, C. Bertelsmann (2016) Kenneth E. Boulding, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth; In H. Jarrett (ed.) 1966. Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy, pp. 3-14. Baltimore, MD: Resources for the Future/Johns Hopkins University Press. US Botschafter Adlai Stevenson bei einer UN-Ansprache im Jahr 1965 {Chris C. Park, The Environment, Psychology Press (2001)} Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Club of Rom 1972: Grenzen des Wachstums The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene, Colin N. Waters et al., 8. Jan 2016 Nassim Taleb, Skin in the Game, Penguin (2018) Klaus Kornwachs, Philosophie der Technik, C.H.Beck Wissen (2013) Lars Fischer, Geoengineering – haben wir überhaupt noch eine Wahl?, SciLogs (2010) Mark Lynas, The God Species: How Humand Really Can Save the Planet  

I didn't buy a car this week - not even an electric. The Commonwealth research organisation suggests the age of the car is coming to an end. How will that work? I didn't eat red meat this week which is just as well because both George Monbiot and Mark Lynas say I shouldn't. But what does the IPCC tell us? Can the four-day week or the four-hour-day become a reality? And I don't know about straws in the wind, but there are still far too many straws in landfill at the moment.

The UK government’s official climate advisors recently reported that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions must fall to zero by 2050 in order to tackle the growing threat of manmade climate change.However, it seems unlikely that we will be able to reach this target by simply burning less fossil fuel and cutting down on international travel. So what else can be done?Environmental charity Rewilding Britain thinks that the answer is to let large areas of the country return to their pre-agricultural state to restore natural carbon sequestering environments such as peat bogs, heaths and salt marshes.In this episode of the Science Focus Podcast BBC Science Focus commissioning editor Jason Goodyer talks to environmental researcher Mark Lynas about the potential beneficial effects of rewilding.We now have more than 75 episodes of the Science Focus Podcast, each of which is still well worth a listen. Here are a few that you might find interesting:Can science explain everything? – Michael BlastlandWhat if the Earth’s magnetic field died? – Jim Al-KhaliliHow can we save our planet? – Sir David AttenboroughAre we facing an insect apocalypse? – Brad ListerAir pollution is killing us, here’s how you can stop it – Gary FullerThere is no Plan B for planet Earth – Lord Martin ReesFollow Science Focus on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Flipboard See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Journalist Mark Lynas campaigned against genetically modified foods. Then in 2008, he changed his mind. On this week's episode, we talk to Lynas about his journey from anti-GMO activist to pro-GMO advocate. Plus, we discuss the strange eating habits of the world’s most infamous dictators; Dan Pashman teaches us how to outsmart a buffet; and we grill up pork skewers from Thailand. For this week's recipe, Thai Grilled Pork Skewers, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/thai-grilled-pork-skewers-moo-ping-barbeque-dinner-chili-lime This week's sponsor: Go to www.KingArthurFlour.com to see King Arthur Flour’s complete line of products.

Back in his student days, science writer and journalist Mark Lynas was one of the first and loudest voices of the anti-GMO movement. He wrote some of the most-read articles about genetically modified organisms, led protests, and may or may not have coined the term “Frankenfood”. But then he really looked into the science of GMO, and did a full 180. In a world-famous speech in 2013, Mark retracted his earlier views, and apologised for having destroyed GM crops. He’s since worked with smallholder farmers in Asia and Africa who, use GMO to better cope with pests, diseases and droughts. He is still an activist, but now he forefronts science in his activism.

Gabe Ignetti and Eric Schmitz interview best selling author, leading scholar, and environmental activist, Mark Lynas, on his body of work including his latest book, The Seeds of Science: Why We Got it So Wrong on GMOs.

The controversial environmentalist, Mark Lynas, in conversation with Peter Armstrong in 2013. Why has he changed his mind about nuclear power?

Mark Lynas believed in his heart that he was doing the right thing.  He was joining others in tearing out field trials of GE crops, and effectively arrested research and development around crop biotechnology.  He [...]

For this month’s podcast, we explore the world of anti-GM campaigning which Mark Lynas was a part of for years, and discover what it was that made him turn his back on his extreme views. The book looks at how and why he decided to help scientists on the other side of the divide, and explores the work he has done to help farmers in developing countries.

Interview with Mark Lynas; What's the Word: Atavism,; News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer, Robot Bees on Mars, Largest Dinosaurs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Math, Interstitium Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction

Interview with Mark Lynas; What's the Word: Atavism,; News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer, Robot Bees on Mars, Largest Dinosaurs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Math, Interstitium Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction

  In today’s podcast we speak with science journalist and author Mark Lynas.  Mark has been a central figure in the discussion of biotechnology, particularly in regard to its role in ensuring food security in [...]

Amidst a brutally polarized debate marked by passion, suspicion and confusion, FOOD EVOLUTION, by Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (The Garden, Fame High, OT: Our Town), explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves, to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film, narrated by esteemed science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. In the GMO debate, both pro and anti camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right? FOOD EVOLUTION shows how easily misinformation, confusion and fear can overwhelm objective analysis. How do we ensure that our food supply is safe, and that everyone has enough to eat? How do we feed the world while also protecting the planet? Has genetic engineering increased or decreased pesticide use? Are GMO foods bad for your health? And, most importantly, what data, evidence and sources are we using to approach these important questions? Enlisting experts such as Mark Lynas, Michael Pollan, Alison Van Eenennaam, Jeffrey Smith, Andrew Kimbrell, Vandana Shiva, Robert Fraley, Marion Nestle and Bill Nye, as well as farmers and scientists from around the world, this bold and necessary documentary separates the hype and emotion from the science and data to unravel the debate around food, and help audiences reach their own conclusions. In a debate in which all sides claim to be on the side of science, FOOD EVOLUTION brings a fresh perspective to one of the most critical issues facing global society today. Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy joins us for a conversation on the science of genetically modified organism and the impassioned arguments surrounding them. For news and updates go to: Food Evolution

This episode is a departure from our normal podcast format. It is a re-broadcast of an extraordinary critical debate and discussion that took place at Oxford University in January of 2016 between Author, Mark Lynas and the faculty of the Oxford Centre for the Environment concerning the the subject of Ecomodernism and the state of the mainstream environmental movement.

Mark Lynas was an anti-GMO activist, living in a squat and tearing up GM crops when he realized the anti-GMO movement was not science based. He came out against the movement he was once a part of and made headlines as a result.

How should we eat to reduce our carbon footprint and save the planet? Should we all give up meat? Or eat only meat that's reared on grassland which couldn't be used for anything else? Or maybe eat intensively-reared meat that grows so fast that it has no time to emit a lot of methane before it's slaughtered? Aside from meat, how important are food miles? Some argue that food grown in hot countries and transported here by boat has a lower overall carbon footprint than food grown in Britain. Tom Heap chairs a debate from the Bristol Food Connections festival with four experts who have very different views, and present their own menus for low-carbon eating: Jasmijn de Boo, Chief Executive of the Vegan Society, Simon Fairlie, author of "Meat - A Benign Extravagance", Mark Lynas, environmental author, and Sean Rickard, agricultural economist. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins.

This is the podcast of the 2015 European Skeptics Conference – the regular conference of The European Council of Skeptical Organisations, taking place in London on 11-13 September, 2015. Joining Marsh today is writer and activist Mark Lynas. Tickets for the conference are available at: http://euroscepticscon.org/. Find out how to donate to support the Good Thinking Society. … Continue reading

With arctic sea ice shrinking and Antarctic sea ice growing, Tom Heap asks what is happening to the climate. Despite the consensus of scientists around the world, there are still some anomalies in the computer models of the future climate. Tom Heap is joined by a panel of experts to tackle some of the difficult questions that lead to uncertainties in our understanding of the changing climate. The perceived wisdom in the scientific community is that the climate is warming but evidence shows that even though Arctic sea ice is melting, there has actually been a growth in Antarctic sea ice. That, along with a documented slow down in the warming of the climate since 1998, has been a 'stone in the shoe' of the climate change story. So what is happening? Tom is joined by BBC and Met office weather presenter John Hammond to put these 'difficult' climate scenarios to a team of experts: Mark Lynas is an author and environmental campaigner, Mike Hulme is professor of Climate and Culture at Kings College London and Dr Helen Czerski is a broadcaster and 'bubble physicist' at UCL. With the help of this panel, Costing The Earth discusses how best to communicate anomalies that don't appear in climate models and make the science sometimes hard to comprehend. Presenter: Tom Heap Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.

Uranium is the fuel for nuclear power stations, which generate carbon-free electricity, but also radioactive waste that lasts a millennium. In the latest in our series looking at the world economy from the perspective of the elements of the periodic table, Justin Rowlatt travels to Sizewell in Suffolk, in a taxi driven by a former uranium prospector.He is given a tour of the operational power station, Sizewell B, which generates 3% of the UK's electricity, by EDF's head of safety Colin Tucker, before popping next-door to the original power station, Sizewell A, where he speaks to site director Tim Watkins about the drawn-out process of decommissioning and cleaning up the now-defunct reactors.But while Sizewell remains reassuringly quiet, the big explosions come at the end of the programme. We pit environmentalist and pro-nuclear convert Mark Lynas against German Green politician Hans-Josef Fell, the joint architect of Germany's big move towards wind and solar energy, at the expense of nuclear. Is nuclear a green option? It really depends whom you ask.

Uranium is the fuel for nuclear power stations, which generate carbon-free electricity, but also radioactive waste that lasts a millennium. In the latest in our series looking at the world economy from the perspective of the elements of the periodic table, Justin Rowlatt travels to Sizewell in Suffolk, in a taxi driven by a former uranium prospector. He is given a tour of the operational power station, Sizewell B, which generates 3% of the UK's electricity, by EDF's head of safety Colin Tucker, before popping next-door to the original power station, Sizewell A, where he speaks to site director Tim Watkins about the drawn-out process of decommissioning and cleaning up the now-defunct reactors. But while Sizewell remains reassuringly quiet, big explosions come at the end of the programme. We pit environmentalist and pro-nuclear convert Mark Lynas against German Green politician Hans-Josef Fell, the joint architect of Germany's big move towards wind and solar energy, at the expense of nuclear. Is nuclear a green option? It really depends whom you ask. (Photo: Perdiodic table)

Mark Lynas, author of “The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans” joined us for the hour on Wednesday. He says we need to embrace Nuclear Power and Genetically Modified Organisms as parts of any successful portfolio of solutions to Climate Change. Many fellow environmentalists disagree.

Mark Lynas is the author of a number of books, including The God Species, and is Tom Williams guest for the hour. We discuss Lynas' idea that we must master human technology, like nuclear power, to save the world from ourselves.

Mark Lynas is een milieuactivist. In deze tekst pleit hij ervoor genetisch gemodificeerde gewassen te promoten in de strijd tegen de milieuproblemen. Dat is hoogst opmerkelijk aangezien hij vroeger deLees meerIk was helemaal fout om tegen GGO’s te zijn

Host: Chris Mooney I'm a big defender of the proposition that when it comes to abusing science, the political left and the political right are very different beasts. But that doesn't make the left innocent of science abuses—and one man who knows that very well is Mark Lynas. He's a British environmentalist and author, and he recently gained dramatic attention for his public conversion on the issue GM crops—denouncing his prior allies, and also his prior self, on the issue. Lynas had been an anti-GM activist and even a destroyer of crops. Now, he thinks science leads to a very different conclusion. He's also a defender of science on other issues where one can make a pretty serious case that the Left gets it wrong—like nuclear power. So I wanted to bring Mark on to discuss anti-science on the left—and finally, to weigh the irrationality of the political poles and see if the scales are really balanced... or not. Mark Lynas is a British journalist and environmental activist. He is the author of three books, most recently The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans.

Skeptical Reporter for February 1st, 2013 Until a few days ago, the name Mark Lynas was little known outside the environmental community. An effective campaigner against genetically modified organisms, Lynas has also written several well-received books, including Six Degrees and The God Species. Recently, Lynas gave a speech at a conference on farming at OxfordUniversity, ...continue reading "Skeptical reporter @ 2013-02-01"

As part of the BBC's What If? season, Hardtalk talks to pro-GM campaigner and environmental author Mark Lynas asking What if genetically modified food is the solution to world hunger?(Image: Mark Lynas, Credit: Getty Images)

Skogar som spär på växthuseffekten Växande träd binder stora mängder kol ur atmosfären och politiker vill därför gärna få räkna bort skogarnas koldioxidupptag mot bilarnas och industriernas utsläpp. Men ny forskning visar att det inte är så enkelt. Torvjordar, mossar och en ökande temperatur gör att vissa svenska skogar faktiskt verkar avge mer klimatgaser än de tar upp. Klotet har besökt ett forskningsprojekt i Vänersborgstrakten. Dessutom har vi träffat författaren Mark Lynas, ("Oväder" och "6 grader") som nu är aktuell med sin nya bok. "Guds utvalda art - Hur planeten kan överleva oss". Programledare: Johan bergendorff

Mark Lynas is an award-winning writer and visiting research associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute who served as an advisor on climate change to the former president of the Maldives. He has authored three books-two on climate change and one focusing on how humans can protect and nurture the biosphere. His lecture, "Living Within Planetary Boundaries: How Should the 'God Species' Respond to Global Environmental Change?" was presented on Mar 2, 2012, as part of the School of Geography and Development colloquium. It is the second in the UA lecture series, "Clearing the Air: Arizona's Voice for Environmental Science." Read his blog at http://www.marklynas.org/. "Clearing the Air" includes talks by four renowned experts on communicating climate and environmental science. The series was designed to highlight the importance of communicating science broadly and clearly. The lecture series is sponsored by the UA's Institute of the Environment, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Water Sustainability Program, Renewable Energy Network, College of Science, UA Biosphere 2, College of Law, and School of Geography and Development.

Human activities increasingly dominate 9 crucial planetary systems. Add to the familiar ones---climate, biodiversity, and chemical pollution---atmospheric aerosols, ocean acidification, excess nitrogen in agriculture, too much land in agriculture, freshwater scarcity, and ozone depletion. To have "a safe operating space for humanity" on Earth requires adjusting our behavior to work within those systems. How we collectively step up to that responsibility will determine whether "the Anthropocene" (the current geological era shaped by humans) will be a tragedy or humanity's greatest accomplishment. British environmentalist Mark Lynas is the author of one of the finest climate books, Six Degrees, and of a new work, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, which spells out a cohesive Green program for this century guided by the 9 boundaries.

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Six Degrees by Mark Lynas Music: Dark Dance Performer: Eric Kanold   time: 0:01:59 size: 1.867 mb

“The chemistry of this is more than a century old… The basic physics of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been known for a very long time. In fact some back-of-the-envelope calculations were made then which more or less stand the test of time a century later.” A few weeks back I met Mark Lynas in Oxford to talk about his book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, shortly before the book won this year’s Royal Society Science Book Prize. The book looks degree by degree at the consequences for the Earth, its biodiversity and its inhabitants, as average global temperatures continue to rise throughout this century. The book is alarming without being alarmist, sobering without being defeatist. As the Royal Society recognized, the book represents a magnificent achievement on Mark’s part, who sifted through a huge amount of scientific data in order to construct such readable and readily comprehensible scenarios. Average rises in global temperature of up to two degrees have serious consequences; above that, the consequences range from the dramatic …

Mark Lynas with "Six Degrees Could Change the World"... upcoming National Geographic special on global warming.  Iowa digging out of the blizzard,  while Iowa politicians plan to bury us in new spending.   Lotsa great conversation.  

Mike talks with author, journalist, and environmental activist Mark Lynas. He's a frequent speaker around the world on climate change, biotechnology and nuclear power, and was climate change advisor to the President of the Maldeeves from 2009 - 2011. In 2013 he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University's Office of International Programs, and now works with the Cornell Alliance for Science, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His books include ‘Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet', winner of the 2008 Royal Society Science books prize, 'The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans', and, most recently, 'Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power'. Mark's Recommendations - Pandora's Promise (documentary) http://imdb.to/2wNuVFl - Food Evolution (documentary) http://imdb.to/2wNpHJI Follow Mark on Twitter https://twitter.com/mark_lynas We hope you'll check out the sponsors of today's show: Brooklinen. Politics Guys listeners get $20 off AND free shipping when you use promo code [tpg] at https://www.brooklinen.com Court Appointed, a podcast where co-hosts Mike and Tommy educate and entertain while exploring where laws - and all things legal - have originated and how they currently apply. http://bit.ly/2wNHSii ZipRecruiter, where Politics Guys listeners can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE by going to https://www.ZipRecruiter.com/politicsguy Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you're interested in supporting the show, go to http://www.politicsguys.com and click on the Patreon link. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy