The Wizard and the Prophet
Science and the Future of Our Planet. Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Wizard and the Prophet tackles the biggest question we humans are facing: can the earth sustain our growing population? Our very existence is reliant on finding an answer to this one big question.
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The Wizard and the Prophet tackles the biggest question we humans are facing: can the earth sustain our growing population? Our very existence is reliant on finding an answer to this one big question.
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'As the world, besieged by ever more titanic storms and wildfires, threatens to explode into a terrifying new normal, books like this . . . are more necessary than ever.' Boston GlobeIn 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 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 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.
'Mann's storytelling skills are unmatched . . . Pure pleasure reading.' New York Times
'Does the earth's finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann's brilliant book The Wizard and the Prophet.' Wall Street Journal
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Charles C. Mann
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Charles C. Mann
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2019, Main Market Ed., 640 Seiten, Masse: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1509884181
- ISBN-13: 9781509884186
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.12.2018
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Englisch
Pressezitat
Mann's storytelling skills are unmatched . . . [He] provides detail enough, and simplicity enough, that anyone who is struggling with these puzzles will be enlightened and informed. And entertained, which, given the subject matter, is no small feat. New York Times
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