04234cam a2200781 4500 468420787 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307961709 0307961702 B071D3CZG4 Amazon 9f43cf34-5974-472d-9722-f54e010c4b13 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 220698 220698 220698 3348968 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mann, Charles C. The Wizard and the Prophet [Libby eBook] : Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 153MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 153MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. environmental science for ap. Sustainability Science. environmentalist gifts. environmental justice. Environmental science. climate change books. global warming books. house warming gifts. house warming gift. agriculture books. philosophy books. climate justice. Global Warming. Climate change. norman borlaug. World History. geology books. science books. science gifts. Conservation. charles mann. Environment. biographies. Agriculture. The Prophet. philosophy. disruption. Innovation. Biography. Science. energy. Food. 1491. 1493. HTML:<b>From the best-selling, award-winning author of <i>1491</i> and <i>1493</i>—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.</b><br /> 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. <i>Cut back</i>! was his mantra. <i>Otherwise everyone will lose</i>! 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. <i>Innovate</i>! was Borlaug's cry. <i>Only in that way can everyone win</i>! 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. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9f43cf34-5974-472d-9722-f54e010c4b13&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9f43cf34-5974-472d-9722-f54e010c4b13&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9f43cf34-5974-472d-9722-f54e010c4b13&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)