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Mark Lynas

HARDtalk: Mark Lynas 

Environmental campaigner and author Mark Lynas

30/01/2013 GMT

Mark Lynas 

BBC News - HARDtalk, Mark Lynas

Stephen Sackur talks to Mark Lynas, a green activist whose opinion on GM food has changed.

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?

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