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The Wizard and the Prophet

by Charles C. Mann

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Popularity 54

Presents two influential scientists, William Vogt (1902-1968), and Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), whose diametrically opposed views shaped modern understandings about the environment and related public policies.

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