The two people were barely acquainted—they met only once, so far as I know—and had little regard for each other’s work. But in their different ways, they were largely responsible for the creation of the basic intellectual blueprints that institutions around the world use today for understanding our environmental dilemmas. Unfortunately, their blueprints are mutually contradictory, for they had radically different answers to the question of survival. The two people were William Vogt and Norman Borlaug.
