Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and pro-science campaigner. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science at Cornell University, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His books on the environment include High Tide, Six Degrees and The God Species. He has appeared frequently on international broadcast media, and written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Washington Post, Daily Nation (Kenya) and the Inquirer (Philippines), among many others. www.marklynas.org