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We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.
Mark Lynas Quotes: We humans, one species of
Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.
Mark Lynas Quotes: Human releases of carbon dioxide
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.
Mark Lynas Quotes: If we are to save
Because of its sheer size and population, China is on a collision course with the planet. The country's oil use has doubled in the last ten years, and if the Chinese by 2030 use oil at the same rate as Americans do now, China will need 100 million barrels of oil a day. However, current world production is only around 80 million barrels per day, and is unlikely to rise much further before the 'peak oil' point is reached. There simply isn't enough oil in the ground to bring Chinese consumption up to Western levels-the global resource buffer is already being hit.
Mark Lynas Quotes: Because of its sheer size
This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.
Mark Lynas Quotes: This is like playing Russian
I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.
Mark Lynas Quotes: I discovered science, and in
As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.
Mark Lynas Quotes: As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother
I particularly dislike the high-profile switch-off campaigns where whole cities are plunged into darkness for an hour as a supposedly symbolic gesture about energy use. So is the implication that we all need to live in constant gloom to reduce CO2 emissions?
Mark Lynas Quotes: I particularly dislike the high-profile
A new world With five degrees of global warming, an entirely new planet is coming into being-one largely unrecognisable from the Earth we know today. The
Mark Lynas Quotes: A new world With five
Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.
Mark Lynas Quotes: Modern Humans have at least
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Mark Lynas Quotes: You'd be forgiven for thinking
First, guilt-tripping doesn't work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them a realistic and feasible alternative. Second, pragmatism beats purism. Every time.
Mark Lynas Quotes: First, guilt-tripping doesn't work as
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.
Mark Lynas Quotes: Once the 'portals of the
For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.
Mark Lynas Quotes: For a brief review of
I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.
Mark Lynas Quotes: I am also sorry that
At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl's Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor's safety.
Mark Lynas Quotes: At 1.24 am on 26
So far as we yet know, this is the only planet in the entire universe which has summoned forth life in all its brilliance and variety. To knowingly cut this flowering short is undoubtedly a crime, one more unspeakable even than the cruellest genocide or most destructive war. If each person is uniquely valuable, each species is surely more so. I can see no excuses for collaborating in such a crime. As the post-war Nuremberg trials established, ignorance is no defence; nor is merely following orders. To me the moral path lies not in passively accepting our destructive role, but in actively resisting such a horrendous fate. As
Mark Lynas Quotes: So far as we yet
When the Earth was last four degrees warmer, there was no ice at either pole. Global warming of this magnitude would eventually leave the whole planet without ice for the first time in nearly 40 million years.
Mark Lynas Quotes: When the Earth was last
Conventional economic theory ... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
Mark Lynas Quotes: Conventional economic theory ... counts
An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.
Mark Lynas Quotes: An outdated view still prevails
Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks ... kick in one after another.
Mark Lynas Quotes: Unless we decide to reduce
We'd do better-if it were possible-just to eat the oil directly. For example, it takes 127 calories of fuel to fly in each calorie of iceberg lettuce from the United States to the UK. According to one estimate, the US food system consumes ten times more fossil energy than it produces in food energy. With
Mark Lynas Quotes: We'd do better-if it were
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