Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism – Review
H.J. de Blij is one of those rare academics and writers who has never lost focus on factual issues and challenges involving our world. As a veteran and highly skilled geographer he is diligently observant, seeks connections and relationships between issues, and places them into an essential geographic context. This is a book about three main challenges facing the US (and the world)- Climate Change, the Rise of China and Islam . It’s a book that (thankfully) challenges the sterile current world view and propaganda promoted by many politicians in the US and elsewhere. It is insightful, honest, extremely thought-provoking and says what needs to be reportedly said in thoroughly analyzed and obvious sections. Finally, it is beautifully written and easy to widely read in a style that is actively engaging, interesting and rich with facts. Highly recommended. Buy it and I guarantee, you will never rather look at these special challenges or the world in the same way again. It paints a future that is difficult and uncertain and dark in some respects. But far from hopeless. The question is whether the decision and policy makers will rise to these challenges in an fully enlightened and dangerous manner? H. J de Blij lays out the challenges in no ambiguous terms – how they will be addressed by the global community and the US in particular, remains to be seen. The stakes are very high indeed.