{"product_id":"the-wizard-and-the-prophet-two-remarkable-scientists-and-their-dueling-visions-to-shape-tomorrows-world-9780345802842","title":"The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the best-selling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003e1491\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e1493\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eCut back\u003c\/i\u003e  was his mantra. \u003ci\u003eOtherwise everyone will lose\u003c\/i\u003e  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. \u003ci\u003eInnovate\u003c\/i\u003e  was Borlaug's cry. \u003ci\u003eOnly in that way can everyone win\u003c\/i\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES C. MANN, a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Science, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWired, \u003c\/i\u003e has also written for \u003ci\u003eFortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the TV network HBO and the series \u003ci\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Order.\u003c\/i\u003e A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50668966019346,"sku":"9780345802842","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dac80fcd-7d21-40d7-b0a8-9a865f085d21.jpg?v=1733753780","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wizard-and-the-prophet-two-remarkable-scientists-and-their-dueling-visions-to-shape-tomorrows-world-9780345802842","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}