# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-lynas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:15:49.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-lynas"
name: "Mark Lynas"
slug: "mark-lynas"
description: "Mark Lynas is a British author and journalist whose work is focused on environmentalism and climate change. He has written for the New Statesman, The Ecologist, Granta and Geographical magazines, and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK, as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post in the United States; he also worked on and appeared in the film The Age of Stupid. He was born in Fiji, grew up in Peru, Spain and the United Kingdom and holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh. He has published several books including Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (2007) and The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans (2011)."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Lynas_-_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.417424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "mark_lynas"
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    title: "Mark Lynas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Lynas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Lynas"
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    title: "Mark Lynas"
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    title: "Mark Lynas"
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    title: "Mark Lynas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump