Mark Lynas: Dont Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction Level Event

Mark Lynas Don t Look Up: Is Climate Change an ExtinctionLevel Event (1 February 2022, CSER Public Lecture, University of Cambridge) In the movie Don t Look Up, humanity dithers when faced with an extinctionlevel threat from a comet and is wiped out. Designed explicitly as an analogy for what the moviemakers see as our collective lack of response to the existential risk of climate change, how accurate is this comparison Mark Lynas, the climate author who has recently released an updated version of his awardwinning book Six Degrees, reviews the latest evidence as to whether climate breakdown can be considered a planetaryscale extinction threat and whether human civilisation or even humanity as a species it significantly at risk this century. Mark Lynas is the author of several books on the environment, including High Tide, Six Degrees, The God Species, Nuclear 2. 0 and Seeds of Science. His most recent publication, in June 2020, was Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Cl