Environmental campaigner [and journalist] Mark Lynas is set to release a new book next month which details his enlightening journey working behind the scenes with other ideologically driven activists – breaking the law and driving the grass roots campaign against farm biotechnology.
It shows how he reached a metaphysical crossroads after “discovering science” which prompted his change of mind on GMs, in order to maintain credibility as an evidence-based thought-leader and climate change author.
“As the economist J. M. Keynes is supposed to have said: ‘When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir?’,” he wrote in the new book.
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His book, ‘Seeds of Science: How we got it wrong on GMOs’ adds to a growing list of publications including ‘Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet’ which won the 2008 Royal Society Science books prize.
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In his new literary work, Mr Lynas talks about one of the strangest experiences he encountered during his time as an anti-GM campaigner, which started in the mid-1990’s, where a small and secret group planned what would have been “our most daring action of all, had it come off as intended”.
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“We had decided to steal science’s first cloned farm animal, the world-famous Dolly the sheep.”
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