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Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas

Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas

FromDecouple


Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas

FromDecouple

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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Jul 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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
Released:
Jul 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.