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What topics will be of most interest to geographers 100 years from now, and why?

Anyone thinking of entering this essay competition for Year 12 Geographers? Nice open-ended question, and it would definitely fill a big hole in a personal statement! Plus...£600 prize money! You don't have to be thinking of applying to Cambridge - but if you are, it would be an even better idea!

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=1323

Two months to go 'til the deadline...

5 minutes of googling for ideas:

Water poverty:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...t-7555277.html

2009 State of the Future report:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...e-1742759.html

Fossil fuels dependency:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/au...rning-question

Demographic change and impact on US labour markets:

http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf...6/conf46e1.pdf

George Friedman's 'The next 100 years':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_100_Years

I reckon if you spent a couple of hours a week on it as a change from revision, it would be a breeze! :tongue:
I'd write it the day before :wink: lol joke. No idea, its a very wide area, what did you pick?
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None.

Global warming will have taken its toll and we die.
Reply 3
Oh, remember it says topics - plural
Reply 4
Maybe I'm being over optimistic, but I don't think the human race is going to be entirely wiped out in 100 years...I imagine at the very least, the Richard Bransons of the world could afford to be smugly orbiting in space! :frown:

I guess you could either mention a few topics in the intro and then go into detail on the one you see as most important, or try to do a decent couple of paragraphs on several areas. Probably more interesting to go into more depth though...

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