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Mann (1491) here provides exhaustive, lively analysis of the views about our environment espoused by Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, two relatively unknown 20th-century scientists whose opinions continue to shape current ideas about the future of the planet. Mann's "wizard" is Borlaug, the Nobel Prize-winning agronomist whose patiently bred strains of wheat kicked off the green revolution; his "prophet" is Vogt, whose 1948 Road to Survival is credited with helping birth modern environmentalism. Borlaugians generally believe in the techno-optimistic ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More