But the 21st century has seen the emergence of private space-tech entrepreneurs who smell money in the stars, and it is a rare news cycle that rolls by without mention of another ‘Moon shot’ and its inevitable claim to be a step further towards Mars. There’s plains and mountains, caves and tunnels and there’s rare earth minerals, precious metals and water. In an inherently integrative discipline such as ours, it is critical that all of our sub-disciplinary voices remain under the larger disciplinary umbrella and join the discussion of our future. She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from Aberystwyth University and grew up in Staffordshire, UK. If, as well as the environment, you’re interested in working with data, analytics and computer systems, then this role might suit you.

Save for minor comments and asides, the same could be said of Morris’s Geography Is Destiny, Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography, Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography and Zeihan’s The Accidental Superpower. These tensions arise not just from geopolitics, but also from a parallel commercial imperative: “There’s money to be made in space, and people are out to get it. Future cities are composed of a series of urban hubs: dense developments connected by high-speed rail. But we are still waiting for “the coming war with Japan” that George Friedman wrote a book about in 1991, and any assessment of Kaplan’s forecasting must note his support of the Iraq war, including joining a secret committee advocating the war to the White House. Buildings are constructed more efficiently and include technology that can improve the quality of natural resources such as water, soil, and air.

There are many very positive things going on in space about solar power, medical experiments, which will benefit all of humankind. Adolf Hitler’s conviction that Germany’s fate lay in the east was a far cry from Steven Dutch’s observation that Cretaceous rocks predict votes. Ideas, laws and culture are interesting, geopoliticians argue, but to truly understand politics you must look hard at maps. Mackinder wasn’t wholly correct, but his predictions’ broad contours – clashes over eastern Europe, the waning of British sea power, the rise of the land powers Germany and Russia – were right enough. Read on to find out more about which careers in geographywould best suit you, and how to increase your employability in these areas.

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