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The Wizard and the Prophet: Science and the Future of Our Planet by Charles...
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- ISBN
- 9781509884186
- Subject Area
- Human Biology
- Publication Name
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Science and the Future of Our Planet
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Subject
- Geography & Geosciences, Science
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 197mm
- Item Width
- 131mm
- Item Weight
- 430g
- Number of Pages
- 640 Pages
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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 civilisation 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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Pan Macmillan
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9781509884186
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Subject Area
Human Biology
Publication Name
The Wizard and the Prophet: Science and the Future of Our Planet
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, Science
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
640 Pages
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Item Height
197mm
Item Width
131mm
Item Weight
430g
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United Kingdom
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