Mark Lynas
@marklynas.bsky.social
Environmental writer, speaker and activist. Head of Policy at WePlanet. Science advisor with the Climate Vulnerable Forum. New book: 'Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid it' out now. My weekly podcast: Saving the World from Bad Ideas.
This week, @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to explore a new framework for understanding environmentalism. George argues there are three distinct & frequently conflicting philosophies: Green Liberationism, Green Pragmatism, & Green Social Nostalgia. 🎙️ Listen below.
This week, @marklynas.bsky.social speaks with Anni Pokela of Operaatio Arktis about why “Hands off Mother Earth” is no longer a serious response to the climate crisis, and why we need to have a serious conversation about solar geo-engineering. 🎙️ Listen below.
Cobalt is a symbol of everything wrong with the clean energy transition: child labour, unsafe mines, corruption, & colonial legacies. This week, @marklynas.bsky.social speaks journalist & author Nicholas Niarchos about why simply ditching cobalt doesn't fix the underlying problem. 🎙️ Listen below.
This week, @marklynas.bsky.social speaks with Stanford historian David Holloway about one of the most dangerous assumptions of the nuclear age: history shows nuclear war will never happen. 🎙️ Listen below.
This week, @marklynas.bsky.social with speaks with filmmaker & environmental storyteller Colin Butfield to discuss how Attenborough’s work has evolved from classic nature spectacle toward a much more explicit confrontation with humanity’s role in shaping the living world. 🎙️ Listen below.
For a century, geothermal meant hunting for rare pockets of heat. New technology means we can now access this heat almost anywhere. This week @marklynas.bsky.social with Terra Rogers, program director for Superhot Rock Geothermal at Clean Air Task Force. 🎙️Ep available now: link below.
This week @marklynas.bsky.social speaks with @dratropos.bsky.social, about why conspiracy thinking is more dangerous than ever. The appeal is simple: know the conspiracy, & everything makes sense. Real conspiracies exist, making fake ones nearly impossible to debunk. 🎙️Ep available now: link below.
This week @marklynas.bsky.social speaks with Dr. Sylvia Earle, legendary marine biologist & oceanographer. She takes us on a journey from copper diving suite to the transformative technology of cell-cultured fish. Her message - we must choose the future we want. 🎙️Ep available now: link below.
“Ultra-processed food” panic is shaping food policy in all the wrong ways. This week @marklynas.bsky.social speaks with food scientist Nesli Sözer about why processing is not the problem — poor nutrition is. 🎙️Ep available now: link below.
Should we be fishing for krill in the Antarctic? This week @marklynas.bsky.social connects via satellite with three researchers aboard a @seashepherdglobal.bsky.social vessel in the Southern Ocean — one of the most remote and important whale feeding grounds on Earth. 🎙️Ep available now: link below.
Back in the 19thC people used to boil penguins, harpoon whales and club seals to death. Thank goodness the days of exploitation are over. Except they aren't - trawlers took 620k tonnes of krill from the Antarctic last year, competing with whales for food. marklynas.substack.com/p/why-is-the...
Why is the Marine Stewardship Council giving this Norwegian trawler company 'license to krill'?
The MSC badge of sustainability is about to be granted to Norwegian trawler company Aker QRILL, threatening whales, seals and penguins around the Antarctic
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Have you ever heard anyone say that there's not enough land for renewables? That solar farms will compromise food production? Bad idea! And 'Saving the World from Bad Ideas' is what we're about, so I was delighted to host the BBC's Tom Heap this week to discuss land issues. youtu.be/hJPDtR_7XK0
Bad Idea #42 "not enough land for renewables" with Tom Heap
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Delighted to see that 'Six Minutes to Winter' is published in Poland today... wydawnictwoport.pl/ksiazki/za-s...
Is industrial food actually the villain — or one of humanity's greatest achievements? This week @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social co-author of Feed the People: Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make it Even Better. 🎙️Ep available now: link below.
Cultivated meat, where is it now? This week @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by @brucefriedrich.bsky.social founder and President of @gfi.org to discuss his new book called Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future. 🎙️Ep linked below
New episode 🎙️ Bad Idea #35: ‘THIS is the Future’ @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by David Wallace-Wells, New York Times columnist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth, to tackle a deceptively simple bad idea: the belief that we can predict the future with confidence. 🎧 weplanet.org/podcast
Is it over for nuclear? As the renewables + batteries electro-tech clean energy revolution gathers pace, do we still need those hugely expensive giant reactors? Join me and Bryony Worthington for our Season 2 ender podcast episode... we went out with a bang! www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...
EU politicians will decide on Wednesday whether to go ahead with the ban on words like burger and sausage for plant-based foods. That means we have one last chance to show how unpopular – and absurd – this policy is. Act now and see what you can do on savetheburger.org
Is the food industry slowly killing us? In this week's episode of Saving the World from Bad Ideas, Mark Lynas sits down with Professor Sarah Berry to take on Bad Idea #33: “Ultra Processed Foods are killing us” Listen to it to wherever you get your podcasts!
This weekend, WePlanet coordinated a protest against the closure of Doel-2 near Antwerp. The owner, French energy company Engie, wants to get rid of their nuclear assets as they'll be more profitable selling gas for the foreseeable future, to burn when renewables don't deliver. Don't stop me now!
Is nuclear power too expensive? Exhibit A is the UK's Hinkley C, over budget and overdue... will copy Sizewell C suffer the same problems? As some project a financing cost of £100bn for Sizewell, MD Julia Pyke tells me that it will actually save consumers £2bn/yr. www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...
If you're in London on the evening of 3 December, there's only one place you need to be - in a pub having drinks with me to discuss the future of environmentalism in the UK! RSVP here: act.weplanet.org/p/drinks-wit...
"It can't happen here" - or can it? I talk to Professor Susan Stokes about the playbook that elected leaders use to quietly erode democracy from within — the same tactics that have turned Hungary, Turkey, and now the United States into hybrid autocracies. www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...
This was my favourite episode for a long time - Zuzu is such a star, and her energy is just infectious. Sharks are lucky to have someone like her on their side! Please do listen...
WePlanet@weplanetint.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew episode 🎙️ Bad Idea #28: “Jaws - aka sharks are scary” @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by Arzucan “Zuzu” Askin, National Geographic Explorer, conservation scientist, and co-founder of Miyaru NGO. 🎧 weplanet.org/podcast
“There’s no hope for humanity.” This week on Saving the World from Bad Ideas, I talk with Dr SJ Beard about why doom thinking can paralyse us — and how existential hope might just save us. 🎧 Listen: www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...
New episode 🎙️ Bad Idea #27 “There’s no hope for humanity” @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by existential risk researcher Dr SJ Beard, who argues that we need to look beyond fear and fatalism to build a future worth surviving for. 🎧 weplanet.org/podcast
New episode 🎙️ Bad Idea #26: “Facts will beat Misinformation.” From fake news to populism, pandemics to AI, this one digs into how misinformation spreads, why it sticks, and what we can do about it... with Cambridge psychologist Sander van der Linden. 🎧 weplanet.org/podcast
Is climate catastrophism actually a bad idea? 🌍 In my latest podcast, I talk with Ted Nordhaus (@Breakthrough Institute) about why apocalyptic climate narratives backfire — and how tech + prosperity can drive decarbonisation. Don't miss it! www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...
WePlanet Podcast | Saving The World From Bad Ideas
a WePlanet podcast. The world is shaped by ideas—some good, some bad, and some that seemed good at the time. This is a podcast about rethinking the things we take for granted, challenging sacred cows...
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WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane! www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union
Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...
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