Geography is most definitely shedding is corduroy jacket and trousers and slipping into something far more fashionable, well jeans and a t-shirt is a start! If ever there was a time when there was a need to better understand the world around us, now is most definitely the time. Helping to fashion those much needed understandings is Geography, a subject very much of here and now as well as the past and future. With governments and businesses the world over calling out for employees with an understanding of the world beyond business clichés and management maxims, geography is the subject to deliver.
‘Geography is no longer a neutral subject [...] Climate change has made it the new history”, both more dynamic and more frightening [...] Geography is the new history. We’re living it now’, writes Robert Butler in his latest Going Green column for Intelligent Life, an off-shoot of the Economist.
If you want to read more, then click on the following link:
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/robert-butler/going-green-rest-geography
