Introduce Yourself to the 21st Century

Welcome to the 21st century, an oil-driven, commercialised, politically unstable, war filled, scientifically awesome, crazy, confusing, and a constantly evolving era in history. If you had to briefly sum up this time period, how would you do it? In one sentence, how would you describe the 21st century?

Street orphans in Sao Paolo, Brazil

See, everyone is different and everyone brings their own knowledge, interests and their own discipline and learning to the fore of the discussion. A historian will tell you that the 21st century is a result of learning from human errors, an era shaped by the actions of people in the past in fields of the sciences, humanities and commerce. A geophysicist will tell you that the 21st century is insignificant in the large picture, plates move roughly 7 cm's a year, 7 metres a century. Human behaviour and development may be great but the plates move due to convection currents below our continental plates and no amount of human intervention can stop the Earth from doing her business. A geographer will tell you that the 21st century is a diversity of people and nature, and the dichotomous relationship between the two. It's about how people interact with places and spaces. A politician will give you a different answer every time you ask the question. So don't ask them anything.

The Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004 had an epicentre near Sumatra, Indonesia. The countries shown are the ones that were mainly effected. The death toll of the disaster reached 227, 898 with 167, 540 (73.5%) of the casualties coming from Indonesia. 

The world is beautiful, yet such a mystery. It is a tapestry of different cultures, languages and perspectives. This blog is designed to understand the world from the views of different people and different cultures and bring it together . Understanding the world from different disciplines puts into perspective our place in it, and what we can do to better it for ourselves and our future generations.

A photography of Patagonia, located in the Southern Tip of South America.