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The Wizard and the Prophet Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet by Charles C Mann | 153.08 MB
English | 640 str. Pages

Title: The Wizard and the Prophet
Author: Charles C. Mann
Year: 2018​



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From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493-an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.
In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups-Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in...

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