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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's WorldBook

by Charles C. Mann

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Barry Ritholtz
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management; host of the Masters in Business podcast and author of How NOT to Invest.
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Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World: When it comes to climate change, there are many possible futures. At one end, things get irreversibly worse; at the opposite end, technology “solves” climate change just like any engineering problem. This book looks at that intellectual clash between environmentalists on the one side and the techno-optimists on the other by telling the history of two little-known twentieth-century scientists.

His annual Bloomberg summer reading list, "10 Books for Beach or Poolside This Summer", each title with his own note on why it is worth reading; the post discloses that the Amazon links throw off a few dollars, which he donates to a literacy program.

2019-05-28·ritholtz.com ↗

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