18 Facts About Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas was born on 1973 and is a British author and journalist whose work is focused on environmentalism and climate change.

Mark Lynas has written for the New Statesman, The Ecologist, Granta and Geographical magazines, and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK, as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post in the United States; he worked on and appeared in the film The Age of Stupid.

Mark Lynas was born in Fiji, grew up in Peru, Spain and the United Kingdom and holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh.

Mark Lynas has published several books including Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet and The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans.

Mark Lynas is a strategic advisor for the international ecomodernist NGO WePlanet.

Mark Lynas has contributed to a book entitled Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World published by Collins, which presents before-and-after images of some of the changes which have happened to the world in recent years, including the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, alongside a bleak look at the effects of mankind's actions on the planet.

In January 2007, Mark Lynas published Gem Carbon Counter, containing instructions to calculate people's personal carbon emissions and recommendations about how to reduce their impact on the atmosphere.

In 2008, National Geographic released a documentary film based on Mark Lynas's book, entitled Six Degrees Could Change the World.

In 2010, Mark Lynas published an article in the New Statesman entitled "Why We Greens Keep Getting It Wrong" and the same year was the main contributor to a UK Channel 4 Television programme called "What the Green Movement Got Wrong".

In July 2011, Mark Lynas published in the UK the book entitled The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans.

Mark Lynas argues that as Earth has entered the Anthropocene, and as such humanity is changing the planet's climate, its bio-geochemical cycles, the chemistry of the oceans and the colour of the sky, as well as reducing the number of species.

In 2012, Mark Lynas was bestowed the Paradigm Award by the Breakthrough Institute in recognition of his intellectual leadership on the Anthropocene.

In September 2012, Mark Lynas wrote a follow-up article in The Guardian entitled "Without Nuclear, the Battle Against Global Warming Is as Good as Lost".

In 2013, Mark Lynas published Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power.

Mark Lynas is featured in the 2013 pro-nuclear documentary film Pandora's Promise.

Mark Lynas apologized for engaging in vandalism of field trials of genetically engineered crops, stating that "anti-science environmentalism became increasingly inconsistent with my pro-science environmentalism with regard to climate change".

Mark Lynas criticized environmental organizations, including Greenpeace and organic trade groups like the UK Soil Association, for ignoring scientific facts about genetically modified crop safety and benefits because it conflicted with their ideologies and stated that he "was completely wrong to oppose GMOs".

Mark Lynas was a speaker there, along with Marcin Rotkiewicz and Tomas Moravec, on the topic of genetically modified organisms.