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The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world / by Charles C. Mann.

Mann, Charles C., (author.). Pinchot, Bronson, (narrator.).

Summary:

Charles C. Mann delivers an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped the ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.

Record details

ISBN: 9780449806388
ISBN: 0449806383
ISBN: 9780449015582
ISBN: 0449015580
Physical Description: 15 audio discs (19 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: New York : Random House Audio ; [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from container. Compact discs.
Formatted Contents Note:	One law -- State of the species -- Two men -- The prophet -- The wizard -- Four elements -- Earth: food -- Water: freshwater -- Fire: energy -- Air: climate change -- Two men -- The prophet -- The wizard -- One future -- The edge of the petri dish.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Bronson Pinchot.