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Nov 6, 2024 | 
revkin.substack.com | Bill McKibben |Mark Lynas |Roger Pielke Jr
Last night, walking over to our neighbors to watch the election returns, I looked up at the star-filled darkness of a Downeast night and was reminded that the Solar System and wider universe wouldn’t be anxiously trying to peak in at the big-screen TV to catch the tally over our shoulders.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
marklynas.org | Mark Lynas
At least the hoping is over. This morning the United States of America, the most advanced and successful nation our world has ever seen, has re-elected an authoritarian demagogue who admires dictators, demonises minorities, promotes fear and hate, and already once tried to overthrow democracy in an election he lost. And not just by a small margin. Trump won handily, in almost all the so-called ‘swing’ states.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
service95.com | Ocean Vuong |Mark Lynas
Monthly Read, Book Club, Books | By On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong – Dua’s Monthly Read for November – is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel focused on the relationship between a nation’s history and one family story, told through letters written by Little Dog, a Vietnamese man, to his illiterate mother.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
service95.com | Mark Lynas
Monthly Read, Book Club, Books | By George Saunders is the author of Lincoln In The Bardo – Dua’s Monthly Read for October – following Abraham Lincoln’s 11-year-old son, Willie Lincoln, as he is pushed into a state of limbo after his premature death at the start of the American Civil War. . To help you further understand the context of a story rooted in history, Mark Lynas explores the world of President Abraham Lincoln, from his struggles of losing his son to his place in history.
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May 29, 2024 | 
marklynas.org | Mark Lynas
News is coming in that the scientific community and government institutions in the Philippines are prepared to fight Greenpeace all the way back to the Supreme Court in order to defend Golden Rice. Motions for reconsideration were filed in early May at the court of appeals in Manila asking the court to reconsider its decision, and pointing out that the justification for the verdict was a misapplication of the precautionary principle not a reasoned examination of the scientific evidence.
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May 29, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Heloise Wood |Mark Lynas
The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) and Baillie Gifford have ended their 20-year partnership, with Edinburgh citing the "intolerable pressure" on the team. The news comes weeks before the 2024 event begins and follows the Hay Festival’s suspension of its sponsorship from the investment company. Author Mark Lynas has suggested authors are being pressured to withdraw from events by Fossil Free Books (FFB), a view widely shared at Hay, though one which the collective denies.
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May 25, 2024 | 
marklynas.org | Mark Lynas
As a writer and campaigner who has spent 25 years working on climate change, there is something I feel I need to say about the fossil fuels divestment campaign targeting Hay and other literary festivals. I’m saying it – after speaking to lots of writers and festival staff who shall remain nameless – because it seems like no-one else can. It would be much easier for me to keep quiet and say nothing too. But that’s precisely the problem. Some background for those who have missed the controversy.
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May 13, 2024 | 
marklynas.org | Mark Lynas
First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or the rainforests. But in reality, you may be complicit in a crime against humanity. Last week, Greenpeace Southeast Asia and several other NGOs managed to stop the cultivation and use of vitamin A-enhanced rice in the Philippines, after the country’s court of appeal ruled in their favour.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
service95.com | Mark Lynas
Rafael Garcin LGBTQIA+, Book Club, Human Rights | By Tomasz Jedrowski is the author of Service95 Book Club’s Monthly Read for May: Swimming In The Dark. Set in 1980s Poland, two students fall in love one summer but have to return to Warsaw under the watchful eye of the party. To celebrate, author and journalist Mark Lynas discusses the history of Poland and the development of LGBTQIA+ rights. By the 1980s, virtually no-one in Communist Poland still believed in Communism.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Mark Lynas
First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or the rainforests. But in reality, you may be complicit in a crime against humanity. Last week, Greenpeace Southeast Asia and several other NGOs managed to stop the cultivation and use of vitamin A-enhanced rice in the Philippines, after the country’s court of appeal ruled in their favour.
