The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles C. Mann
Norman Borlaug (the Wizard) and William Vogt (the Prophet): they may not be household names (though Borlaug did win the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the “Green Revolution” in agriculture), but Mann convincingly sets them up as emblems of the two poles in modern environmental thinking, the think-big technocratic Wizards and the think-small ecologist Prophets. …
