Crash Course Geography Preview - By CrashCourse
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| 00:0-1 | Geography is maps and rivers and mountains , but it's | |
| 00:02 | more than that . Geography is cities and cultures and | |
| 00:05 | people , but it's more than that to geography is | |
| 00:08 | finding patterns and connections between places and seemingly unrelated processes | |
| 00:12 | , digging deeper into the stories behind facts and asking | |
| 00:15 | why is this happening here ? Hi , I'm al | |
| 00:18 | is a career and welcome to crash course Geography . | |
| 00:21 | I'm so excited to embark with you on this journey | |
| 00:23 | around the world to explore the ins and outs of | |
| 00:25 | everything above and below the surface of the earth . | |
| 00:27 | Over the next year . To me , geography is | |
| 00:30 | about understanding the dynamic relationship between us humans and the | |
| 00:33 | incredible place we get to call our home . It's | |
| 00:35 | an inquisitive , close up look at how we shape | |
| 00:37 | the land and in turn how the land shapes us | |
| 00:40 | , like where and how we choose to produce our | |
| 00:42 | food , move our goods and build our economies and | |
| 00:45 | what happens when natural or human caused forces change or | |
| 00:47 | disrupt entire ecosystems . My own research has taken me | |
| 00:50 | to the far corners of the earth to explore , | |
| 00:52 | study and document these types of issues in the Middle | |
| 00:55 | East . I spent time looking at electronic waste disposal | |
| 00:58 | and the impact it has on water , livestock and | |
| 01:00 | human health . As a National Geographic Explorer , I | |
| 01:03 | traveled to Madagascar to study how farmers are adapting their | |
| 01:06 | agricultural practices to cope with severe erosion and to Bangladesh | |
| 01:10 | to study how people are adapting to sea level rise | |
| 01:12 | by building floating gardens . As a documentary filmmaker , | |
| 01:15 | I trekked through the Himalayas to learn firsthand how communities | |
| 01:18 | live with the consequences of glacial melt and through the | |
| 01:20 | muddy backwaters of the Mississippi River to understand the fate | |
| 01:23 | of the most prolific invasive fish species in the United | |
| 01:25 | States and one of the most amazing things I've learned | |
| 01:28 | while traveling across such distant and diverse locations is how | |
| 01:31 | remarkably connected we are to each other and our planet | |
| 01:35 | . I've seen how our individual and collective actions affect | |
| 01:37 | the systems and landscapes around us . Whether it's a | |
| 01:40 | swift change at a local level or a slow moving | |
| 01:42 | shift over an entire hemisphere , Geography teaches us about | |
| 01:45 | the profound interconnectedness of the world . Traditionally , geography | |
| 01:49 | is split into two tightly intertwined parts , so we'll | |
| 01:52 | begin our time together studying physical geography or the processes | |
| 01:55 | and phenomena of the physical world both above and below | |
| 01:58 | the earth's surface . We'll ask lots of questions like | |
| 02:00 | why is the sea floor so young when the earth | |
| 02:03 | is so old ? Or try to identify why winds | |
| 02:05 | and ocean currents are so important to life on earth | |
| 02:08 | , or explain why the Aral sea in Central Asia | |
| 02:10 | has been called , quote , one of the worst | |
| 02:12 | environmental disasters in modern history . Halfway through , we'll | |
| 02:15 | turn our focus to human geography and explore the ways | |
| 02:18 | people occupy the Earth's surface , like how we've moved | |
| 02:21 | , settled and use the land resources and space . | |
| 02:23 | So we'll look at how languages migrate and change , | |
| 02:26 | like how the Bantu language spread throughout Africa or how | |
| 02:28 | humans interact with their environment . Like how for centuries | |
| 02:31 | people have relied on the seasonal monsoon rains in India | |
| 02:33 | to bring life giving moisture to their crops . But | |
| 02:36 | there's not a clear line dividing the physical and the | |
| 02:38 | human , which is where geography gets its strength because | |
| 02:41 | really geography is telling the story of the earth . | |
| 02:44 | Even something as commonplace as a banana has a complicated | |
| 02:47 | backstory that twists across continents and climates and turns between | |
| 02:50 | vast trade networks and political coups . We'll get to | |
| 02:53 | all that and more and in the end , well | |
| 02:55 | , we'll probably still have more questions . I hope | |
| 02:57 | you'll join me on this journey as we unravel the | |
| 02:59 | tail in Crash course Geography , Crash course Geography is | |
| 03:02 | made with the help of all these nice people . | |
| 03:04 | If you'd like to help keep crash course free for | |
| 03:06 | everyone forever , please consider supporting us on Patreon , | |
| 03:09 | and if you'd like to keep learning from this course | |
| 03:11 | , click on the playlist below . |
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