Mark Lynas is the author of three previous books. High Tide: News from a Warming World was published in 2004, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet in 2007. The God Species was published in 2011. Six Degrees was made into an hour-long documentary by NatGeo and broadcast worldwide in 2008,...

Heuermann Lecture focused on a dialogue about the issues surrounding international agriculture trade.