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Charles C. Mann

The Wizard and the Prophet

Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet

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By about 2050 the human population of the Earth will reach ten billion. This will present fundamental problems: how to feed ten billion? How to provide ten billion with water? How to keep ten billion warm in the cold and cool in the heat? And how to do all this without irreparably harming our planet?To explore these challenges, Charles C. Mann goes back to the 1950s and 60s and brings to life two individuals who established the distinct schools of thought that still dominate our ideas about these issues. 'The Prophet' is ecologist William Vogt, who spent years struggling through the remotest regions of Latin America to assemble what became th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5098-8416-2
  • EAN: 9781509884162
  • Produktnummer: 25151608
  • Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 608 S.
  • Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.2 cm x D4.5 cm 848 g
  • Gewicht: 848
  • Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor


Charles C. Mann, a correspondent for The Atlantic, Science and Wired, has written for Fortune, the New York Times, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post, as well as for HBO and 'Law & Order'. A three-time US National Magazine Award finalist and the author of three previous books. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus won the US National Academies Communication Award for the best book of the year, and both that book and its sequel, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, were New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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