
Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science
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Science Fiction and the Future of Science Fiction
Geography covers a huge rangement. From deep sea sediments, long term climate change to hydrology and geamorphology. And then we get into the social side, which is then about development,. All the way through culture and how different cultures view nature. This isn't elective. Did you have to because as someone who's a geography major, you wouldn't think that would necessarily be manatory chorus? I find one person that i find incredibly fascinating, james neal, whose studies science fiction novels. What he looks at is how science fiction has influenced scientists and how sciences influenced science fiction. Because most visions of the future are driven by new exciting sience.
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