Bibliograph

The wizard and the prophet, two groundbreaking scientists and their conflicting visions of the future of our planet, Charles C.Mann

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The wizard and the prophet, two groundbreaking scientists and their conflicting visions of the future of our planet, Charles C.Mann

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The wizard and the prophet

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Charles C.Mann

Sub title

two groundbreaking scientists and their conflicting visions of the future of our planet

Summary

In 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 unique, original and 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 little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt

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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