I study geography because I like to look at the territorial problems, also because Chile has various geographic regions and each region is very different and I like to study this variety of regions. I think that in Chile, despite the big variety of geographic regions, the people don´t know anything about geography. For example when we (Chilean people) have an earthquake or have a volcanic eruption the people are surprised and think that it is a punishment from the gods and not a natural process. For that reason I like to study geography. But the more I study geography the more I think that the knowledge problem is a global problem and not only in Chile, Proof of this are the victims in the natural disaster in the world, in earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, Flood, mud flow, Hurricane, monzón cyclone, heatwave, etc.

I think that the environment problem is one, but manage the environment is the other problem and I think that the geographer can help to resolve the big problem of manage the vulnerability of the people with the environment and reduce the numbers of fatalities around the world for natural disaster.

Finally I recommend a book about managing environment problems for successful and unsuccessful societies titled “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” by Jared Diamond.