WHY DO I NEED TO STUDY GEOGRAPHY?

"Why do I need to study geography?" Personally, I do think it also simply means what do I know about geography.I keep asking myself this question after I did the very first geography lecture in JCU.

Honestly, I have never think about why I need to study geography before. I used to think geography is just one of the school sujects that we have to learn about. Since I got to know more about this subject,  I have found out the geography is a very interesting suject, and I started to love it! It's not because it is one of the compulsory courses I have to take, it is because geography has a profound effect in our life which other subjects may not have.

When I think about Geography there is five points that come to my mind  which is People, Animals

and Plants , Environent , Weather , Natural Resource and Natural Disaster. They may not be all about geography, but there are hundreds and thousands of words linked to these few words. It's just like doing a mind mapping that every single word are linked to each other.

Thinking about "people" there are some words link to  it which is habitat, language, culture, region, races and so on. When we study about "people" through the geography we can know more about the people from different countries, regions, we are belong to different races and have different culture. It's the good way to encourage the communication across cultures. It also promote the developement of a global village.

 

When we learn about "animals and plants"in geography, it helps us to understand more kinds of animals and plants which share the same living space with us. It's good to know about their habits and living environment as well, because we are all "family members" of this planet. It's cool to make friends with them, isn't it?  They also belong to the natural resource just like water, trees, air etc.. They are the most important part in our life which we can't live without.

There is a relastionship between the word"environment""weather"and"natural disaster" as well. We need know about our living place, being friendly with it, it is because it is direct related to our daily life. No doubt, the weather and natural disasters are two of the most important thing we have to learn about too. Nowadays the climate change directly cause global warming and bring a lot of natural disasters to our life. The disasters take away people's life and destroy the houses,city and even a country. Maybe some natrual disaster we can not control, but we can prevent. How can we do that ? I think basically is to learn about geography, just like learning about a person's temper and personality. If we know about our planet, I believe we can get together very well.

Geography may not teach us how to make money, communicate with

each other and protect ourself, but actually it does help.  learning geography is not only about these, it also help us to know how is the world changed when it just started and until now and the future. The geography is also like history to record changes.

I really don't know I have wrote so much about geography, anyway, they are all the reasons why I need to study about geography as well. To make it shorter, it is simply because geography is the root of our life, it does influence our life deeply!