by Charles C. Mann
@CharlesCMann 

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493 – an incisive portrait of the two little-known 20th-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 21st century will choose to live in tomorrow’s world.

In 40 years, Earth’s population will reach 10 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. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose!

Interview with the Author

Town Hall Seattle Science Series
Charles Mann
2/19/18       78 min


Long Now: Seminars About Long-Term Thinking
Charles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet
1/22/18      88 min


Conversations with Tyler
Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits of Growth
1/31/18        56 min


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