geography sens through journalist eyes

Geography, several decades ago, was giving the sense that although the world was changing, it was doing so in a slow, orderly, even picturesque.
But now, Geography is "no longer a neutral subject," writes Robert Butler in his latest Going Green column. Climate change has made it "the new history", both more dynamic and more frightening ...
Quoting intelligent life from  "the Economist"

A good article, from journalist view probably.
But it's enough to look at the technological growth and it clearly explains the new development waves in many sciences, as well in geography,the new small discoveries and the boom of information, especially geo-information public available. And since for non-technical people technologies look a bit frightening, the subject may become so as well.
Indeed, it's future, that we are facing and we shouldn't be aware of it neither frightened.

The world was and is always changing, it doesn't matter we close our eyes or open them.

borders: multifeatured lines

Tijuana-San Diego border  (source:Wikipedia)

There are many boundaries in the world, one of the most official ones in big scale are borders, in other words, political boundaries. How often do we confront with boarders personally? How do we understand them socially?

It is very hard to generalize the notion of border as it depends on us and on the boarder we confront with, but there is a common, social agreement on boarders, their visualization - political map, their definition - laws, their realization - boarder surveillance constructions. There are so many different understandings about the border that it makes boarder variable!