Mark Lynas

Seeds of Science

Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

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Produktbeschreibung

The inside story of the fight for and against genetic modification in food, from someone who's been on the front line of both sides of the argument

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 353879, 900209486
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9781472946973
• ISBN-10: 1472946979
• Artikelnr.: 55900140

Autorenporträt

Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011. He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. He is research lead at the Alliance for Science at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an affiliate of Cornell University, and has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on vaccines, climate and GMOs. He is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet, launched in 2021 and now active in 12 countries.

Inhaltsangabe

GMO, GM or GE?
Chapter 1: UK Direct Action: How we Stopped the GMO Juggernaut
Chapter 2: Seeds of Science: How I Changed my Mind
Chapter 3: The Inventors of Genetic Engineering
Chapter 4: A True History of Monsanto
Chapter 5: Suicide Seeds? Farmers and GMOs from Canada to Bangladesh
Chapter 6: Africa: Let Them Eat Organic Baby Corn
Chapter 7: The Rise and Rise of the Anti-GMO Movement
Chapter 8: What Anti-GMO Activists Got Right
Chapter 9: How Environmentalists Think
Chapter 10: Twenty Years of Failure
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

Rezensionen

In short, Mark Lynas is a saint. Dominic Lawson Sunday Times 20180318