What Is Harm De Blij's Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever?
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In 2012 Harm de Blij wrote the book, Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever. It was written to help inform students and adults around the world about geography. This irregularity of geographic consciousness and knowledge may be the most hazardous of all. There is evidence that not many people have knowledge of geography, as they need to because the study of geography becomes more important in a further globalized and interconnected world. In a national newspaper there was a survey is which the results were that only one in seven Americans could identify Iraq on a blank map of Eurasia. This is a problem which people need to know about. Americans have unambiguous responsibility to be well informed about the geography of our small world. This…show more content… As to the subtitle, More Than Ever, geography knowledge has disappeared in time by shrinking budgets and growing challenges. De Blij’s book helps the reader understand what geography is and how much this world is in need of geography. Our world is in competition and altering at a quicker pace than it used to be. There are global and regional challenges rising faster than ever in which our governments have to make quick-thinking conclusions to the world. For example, North Korea and Iran have nuclear ambitions that present daunting challenges for those who make the decisions on what will happen next. “The age of discovery may be over, but the age geography may never be over.”(De Blij) There is almost nothing in this wide world that cannot be studied in geography. For instance geography is more technological in which computers, whose information is from the satellites, make maps. These maps are used for analyzing and evaluation. The natural and human world is dealt by geography. Geography is the study of coastlines, glaciers, weather climate, plants, and animals. Geography also studies human activities, city planning, and boundary making. Foreign cultures and distant regions are also researched and being understood in