The Wizard and the Prophet Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Charles C. Mann
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
210

The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann Book Summary

From the bestselling, 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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Book Name The Wizard and the Prophet
Genre Environment
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Language English
E-Book Size 158.09 MB

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Summary of The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann

The The Wizard and the Prophet book written by Charles C. Mann was published on 23 January 2018, Tuesday in the Environment category. A total of 210 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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