- Pan Macmillan
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 616 Seiten
- ISBN 9781509884186
'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 Globe 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 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
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