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The Earthweek Keynote Address: “Wizard and the Prophet,” Charles C. Mann

Wed, April 24th, 2019
7:30 pm

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Charles Mann is a journalist and author specializing in environmental and scientific topics. His book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year. He is the coauthor of four books, and contributing editor for ScienceThe Atlantic Monthly, and Wired.  His talk will focus on his most recent book, The Wizard and the Prophet (2018), which details two competing theories about the future of agriculturepopulation, and the environment. The titular “wizard” Mann refers to is Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winner credited with developing the Green Revolution and saving 1 billion people from starvation.Mann refers to William Vogt, an early proponent of population control, as the “prophet.”
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