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The wizard and the prophet : two groundbreaking scientists and their conflicting visions of the future of our planet

Mann, Charles C.2018
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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.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2018.
Collation:
x, 616 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781509884162 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
363.700922
Language:
English
Related title:
The Wizard and the Prophet [electronic resource] : Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet
BRN:
370039
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