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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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.

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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...

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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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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Bad Idea #42 "not enough land for renewables" with Tom Heap

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Delighted to see that 'Six Minutes to Winter' is published in Poland today... wydawnictwoport.pl/ksiazki/za-s...

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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...

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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!

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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!

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

"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...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

“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...

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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...

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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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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

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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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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Please sign and share this, particularly if you're a European citizen. What Brussels is proposing is both damaging and incredibly dumb, and the European Parliament is about to vote (on 8 October) on an amendment to make it even worse! Please do sign 🙏 weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

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Stop the EU’s Ban on “Meaty” Words for Plant-Based Foods

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New Saving the World from Bad Ideas 🎙️ With @mliebreich.bsky.social I tackle Bad Idea #24: “We’ll just use Hydrogen!” 💧 Hydrogen hype ≠ climate strategy. We break down why it’s overblown, where it might fit, and why pragmatism wins. 🎧 savingtheworldfrombadideas.substack.com/p/bad-idea-2...

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Bad Idea #24 "We’ll just use Hydrogen!" with Michael Liebreich

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Is green hydrogen the silver bullet for decarbonisation — or a trillion-dollar distraction? @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by energy analyst, investor, and podcaster @mliebreich.bsky.social to unpack Bad Idea #24: “We’ll just use Hydrogen!”

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Bad Idea #24 "We’ll just use Hydrogen!" with Michael Liebreich

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hydrogen is the worst 'bad idea' yet - and Michael has immense fun taking it apart...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The EU wants to ban words like “burger” + “sausage” from plant-based foods. So get ready for “protein tubes” + “alternative discs.” 🙃 Nobody’s confused — except Brussels. Consumers + the planet deserve better. #NoConfusion substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Will the EU now ban 'sausage' and 'burger' from plant-based alternatives?

Could Europe get any dumber?

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I know I'll take flak for this, but the principle - if not the execution - is sound. Modular reactors can enable the decarbonisation of parts of the economy that are otherwise hard to reach. But tying their development to the US? That's less sound. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Is it too late to stop climate change, or do we still have reasons for hope? To launch Season Two, @marklynas.bsky.social talks with @hannahritchie.bsky.social, Deputy Editor of Our World in Data and author of Clearing the Air: The hopeful guide to solving climate change in 50 questions.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I love that @marklynas.bsky.social named his pod Saving the World From Bad Ideas. We took a stab at it; you might not like what we had to say but hear us out!

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Tom Heap @tomheap.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

80 years on from the horror of Hiroshima should splitting the atom be seen as an environmental menace or asset? @BBCRareEarth @marklynas.bsky.social, Prof Tim Mousseau, Dr Fiona Rayment. The picture is from 1995 when I visited Hiroshimaon the 50th anniversary

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Exciting episode of Saving the World from Bad Ideas releasing tomorrow, all about Rewilding. Is rewilding just about wolves & wilderness vs farmers &rural communities, or something much more hopeful @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by Rebecca Wrigley, Chief Executive of @rewildingbritain.org.uk.

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I'll be speaking about my new book at the Cuckmere Wildlife Festival on the English south coast tomorrow morning. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuckmere-w...

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Cuckmere Wildlife Festival

An amazing book festival featuring experts speaking about wildlife, conservation and the environment, and the creation of Cuckmere.

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

'I should have taken methane more seriously in fighting climate change,' admits Carl Pope from the Sierra Club in a self-serving NYT op-ed. Strange how he forgets to note that the Sierra Club took $25 million from the gas industry in 2007-10. Maybe that's why the Sierra Club didn't fight gas... 🤔

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is such a critical issue - and yet it's ignored by virtually everyone.

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Hurricanes. Floods. Fires. Tornadoes. Are extreme weather disasters getting worse because of climate change? Not according to Roger Pielke Jr, who has got himself cancelled by climate activists despite sticking to the IPCC line on extreme weather. Latest podcast: www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...

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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

As a Cold War kid, I'm constantly astounded by the fact that anyone ever thought climate change might be a bigger deal than nuclear war. And I say this as someone who's doing climate economics as a job.

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Why nuclear war, not the climate crisis, is humanity’s biggest threat, according to one author

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat

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