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The Wizard and the Prophet - Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
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The Wizard and the Prophet - Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
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In forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion.
Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it
be? In this unique, original and important book, Charles C. Mann
illuminates the four great challenges we face - food, water,
energy, climate change - through an exploration of the crucial work
and wide-ranging influence of two little-known twentieth-century
scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt. Vogt (the Prophet) was
the intellectual forefather of the environmental movement, and
believed that in our using more than the planet has to give, our
prosperity will bring us to ruin. Borlaug's research in the 1950s
led to the development of modern high-yield crops that have saved
millions from starvation. The Wizard of Mann's title, he believed
that science will continue to rise to the challenges we face. Mann
tells the stories of these scientists and their crucial influence
on today's debates as his story ranges from Mexico to India, across
continents and oceans and from the past and the present to the
future. Brilliantly original in concept, wryly observant and deeply
researched, The Wizard and the Prophet is essential reading for
readers of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens or Jared Diamond's Guns,
Germs and Steel, for anyone interested in how we got here and in
the future of our species.
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