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Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas is a veteran green activist who made a U-turn on GM technology and nuclear power. He says he's junked ideology in favour of hard science. Is it really as simple as that?

The zeal of the convert is a factor not just in religion but in scientific debate as well. Mark Lynas is a veteran green activist who led a campaign to vandalise experimental genetically modified crops. But that was then; now he says GM technology is entirely safe, and a necessity if we're to feed the planet. He's made a similar U-turn on nuclear power too. He says he's junked ideology in favour of hard science. Is it really as simple as that?

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 Jan 2013 21:30GMT

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Interviewer Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Mark Lynas

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