Mark Lynas is an author, speaker, podcaster and campaigner. His latest book is Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It, published 8 May 2025. He also acts as science advisor with the 74-country Climate Vulnerable Forum, and is Head of Policy with the pro-science environmental campaign network WePlanet.
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'Don't piss people off' -- Why the theory of change needs to adapt.
@MLiebreich argues that the clean energy transition is already well advanced and that narratives to go even faster risk polarising voters and resulting in slower climate action.
He joined @mark_lynas for our...
"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. https://www.weplanet.org/podcast/episode/20b1e613/bad-idea-30-it-cant-happen-here-with-susan-stokes
Please listen to this one - my favourite episode in ages... Zuzu is such a star - sharks are lucky to have her as an advocate! She's been leading perhaps the coolest science project ever - doing ultrasound scans of female tiger sharks live in the water!
Are sharks really the monsters we’ve been taught to fear — or the ocean’s misunderstood guardians?
In this weeks episode of Saving the World from Bad Ideas, Mark Lynas sits down with Arzucan "Zuzu" Askin, National Geographic Explorer, conservation scientist, and co-founder of...
Over the weekend Germany committed another act of national self harm by demolishing the cooling towers at the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Station which was forced to shutdown under the Atomausstieg (Nuclear Phase-out) policy.
A new report by @anthrop_inst and WePlanet found...
"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: https://www.weplanet.org/podcast/episode/316a6a1e/bad-idea-27-theres-no-hope-for-humanity-with-dr-sj-beard
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. 🎧 http://weplanet.org/podcast
