Why is geography needed. Brief leadership. Crane N.

Geography is a science that connects all people on the planet. We are all geographers, because we are not indifferent to the place that we consider to be our “home” - the planet Earth is the main object of the study of this science.

The author of the book is a modern British writer, geographer and cartographer Nicholas Crane offers readers with him To make a short but fascinating and emotional geographical journey in time and space. It will begin at the point of Lagrange. We will see how billions of years ago from a lifeless hot sphere, our planet gradually turns into a marvelous masterpiece of organic life. We will trace the appearance of photosynthesis, the emergence of life, the struggle for the survival of the first representatives of the animal world and the formation of an ecosystem that allowed the GOMO biological family to enter the game. Our guide will present to us the Earth in the form of a complex interaction of the four spheres: lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Showing how a person acts against their background, how his idea of ​​geography is formed, the author returns us to here and now. What do we see? Every day, streams of information about catastrophic climatic changes, overpopulation, and depletion of natural resources are falling on us. Can a journey continue? The further narrative depends on all of us, and knowledge of geography will become the guarantor of the future.