Geography Reference
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impact on society. However, we must allow curiosity-driven
research into environmental processes to thrive. Often many
amazing discoveries are made that have huge impacts on society
when there is a thriving research community able to follow new
avenues and find out how the world works without there neces-
sarily being a particular societal impact in mind. The inventors of
the laser were just investigating some of Einstein's theories and did
not foresee its practical use for eye surgery or DVD players. Micro-
wave ovens and penicillin were outcomes of research on something
completely different from their use today. So I encourage you to
further study physical geography not just because you might need to
know how components of the Earth's system work for your occu-
pation or to pass an exam, but because you want to know how the
Earth's system works. You might just make a serendipitous discov-
ery that impacts your life and perhaps the lives of the rest of us too.
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