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4 days ago | 
lithub.com | Mark Lynas
The day of the war dawns like any other. There is no warning, and across New York people are beginning their daily routines. No air raid sirens wail and no early-warning messages flash on screens. Cars are being backed out of garages in the suburbs, while kids wearing colorful backpacks wait for school buses outside the shops. Harassed moms stuff sandwiches into packed lunches while a million espresso machines grind on kitchen counters.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Mark Lynas
A week after the first bomb dropped, sparking an all-out nuclear war, the ruins of cities worldwide are still smouldering. In the areas hit directly by the 4,000 explosions in the targeted countries, there is nothing left: the firestorms produced intense heat and virtually all flammable material was consumed. Some 770 million people have been killed and skeletons are everywhere, alongside the haunting shadows left by people who were caught outside during the first blasts and vaporised.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Mark Lynas
The world has come close to accidental nuclear war many times – most terrifyingly in January 1995. That was when a Norwegian rocket launch, carrying scientific equipment to study the Northern Lights, was mistakenly identified by Russian early-warning stations as a US missile attack. The Norwegian government had notified the Russians about the launch to avoid exactly this kind of confusion, but the Russian foreign ministry had failed to pass this on to the military.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Mark Lynas
The day of the all-out nuclear war dawns like any other. There is no warning and people are going about their normal lives in capitals across the world. In New York, the first city to be hit, it’s around 8am. Cars are being backed out of garages in the suburbs, while kids wearing colourful backpacks wait for school buses and harassed mums stuff sandwiches into packed lunches. Outside an inner-city school, a group of ten-year-old girls wait to cross the road.
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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.
