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- Unbranded
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- ISBN
- 0307961699
- Book Title
- Wizard and the Prophet : Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Modern / 20th Century, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Global Warming & Climate Change, Natural Resources, Science & Technology
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 33.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 640 Pages
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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 effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307961699
ISBN-13
9780307961693
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237551548
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wizard and the Prophet : Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Modern / 20th Century, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Global Warming & Climate Change, Natural Resources, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
33.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ge56.V64m36 2018
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"A fascinating story of two forgotten men whose ideas changed our understanding of humanity's place in nature. The Wizard and the Prophet is an intellectual history of the clash between techno-optimists and environmentalists, but it's also the very personal story of two thinkers, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt. Mann offers a sympathetic, nuanced way to understand one of the fundamental debates of our time: How will 10 billion humans live sustainably on Earth, when our demands for energy and food are growing? This book showcases an important new kind of futurism, which looks to the past to understand how we'll survive. Never preachy nor dogmatic, Mann asks his readers to do the most difficult thing possible: choose a path to a better world, by consulting your own conscience." --Annalee Newitz, editor, Ars Technica
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-024776
Dewey Decimal
333.7
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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