ISBN 978-0-00-731342-6. "The Gods Species - How the Planet can survive the Age of Humans" was written by Mark Lynas and published by Fourth Estate in 2011. Lynas's "Six Degrees" remains one of the finest books on Climate Change that anyone should read. It is for good reason that it won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and is one of Post-carbon Living's top rated books. So when Lynas turned against his old buddies in the green movement and called for the support of GM crops and Nuclear power he turned from being just an awesome author but also one with interesting views. Views we have a lot of sympathy for. Since our work has never stemmed from a set of green orthodoxies we certainly are also free to turn over the mish mash that is the cultural legacy of 40 years of environmentalism. Some of it is good, some bad and some darn-right ugly. We live in enlightened era of breakthrough environmentalism where the likes of Chris Goodall and George Monbiot feel comfortable expressing concerns over resource depletion alongside support for technologies such as nuclear. There was nothing new in what Lynas was attempting. What proved unfortunate was the style in which he has attempted this renaissance. He likes to bang his own drum.

We first noticed it when we started to follow Lynas's Tweets. It became quickly clear that Lynas had no great vision of using social media to explore new ideas. No. He used Twitter to promote the sale of his books. This in itself is not wrong (it is his only income next to a retainer paid by the government of the Maldives) but what left us feeling jaded was the abrasive manner of his self-promotion. His Tweets started to resemble those of Bjorn Lomborg. ...   more »