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The wizard and the prophet, two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world, by Charles C. Mann

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The wizard and the prophet, two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world, by Charles C. Mann

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eng

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biography

Main title

The wizard and the prophet

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983821911

Responsibility statement

by Charles C. Mann

Sub title

two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world

Summary

Charles C. Mann delivers an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped the ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world

Table Of Contents

One law -- State of the species -- Two men -- The prophet -- The wizard -- Four elements -- Earth: food -- Water: freshwater -- Fire: energy -- Air: climate change -- Two men -- The prophet -- The wizard -- One future -- The edge of the petri dish

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