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On the other hand, ecologists (prophets) who warn that the man is exhausting the earth. They want to set limits to growth and focus on sobriety and sustainability: less meat, fewer flies, less fertilizer, more small-scale (organic) agriculture, more thought about recycling. at the birth of these two camps. The first is Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), an American agronomist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work to develop disease-resistant agricultural crops. Borlaug, dubbed the "father of the green revolution," the most important agricultural revival of the last century, was a typical wizard, says Mann, endowed with an unwavering confidence in technology.
1968), also an American ecologist and ornithologist who put his life at the service of means to convince the man of the need to take a step back. Prosperity is not our greatest merit, but our biggest problem, said Vogt. He presented the Earth's carrying capacity as an agreement, advocated for birth control and became one of the founders of the modern environmental movement. According to Mann, a prophet,
where Borlaug called "more, more, more," Vogt pleaded for "less, less less." And never will the couple meet according to the famous poem of the British poet Rudyard Kipling.
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