Leading environmental campaigners support nuclear and GM - Telegraph

For years they campaigned against nuclear power and genetically-modified food. But now some leading environmental campaigners have performed a U-turn and said that they got it wrong.
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Mark Lynas, a campaigner who has been a member of action groups on GM foods and climate change, said the environmental lobby was losing the battle for public opinion on climate change because it had made too many apocalyptic prophecies and exaggerated claims.

He said: "We have got to find a more pragmatic and realistic way of engaging with people."

Stewart Brand, an American activist and former editor of Whole Earth Catalog, said: "I would like to see an environmental movement that says it turns out our fears about genetically engineered food crops were exaggerated and we are glad about that. It is a humble and modest stance to take to the real world.

"Environmentalists did harm by being ignorant and ideological and unwilling to change their mind based on actual evidence. As a result we have done harm and I regret it."
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The activists feature in the Channel 4 documentary What the Green Movement Got Wrong, which will be broadcast this week.

By the way, the accompanying photo has this interesting name: Carbon-dioxide_1395149c.jpg.
1. Since carbon dioxide is invisible, why are we supposed to believe that that black stuff is CO2?
2. Is this a real photo, or has it been PhotoShopped?