Tag: Geographer

This is the first in a series of posts about the Amazing Fragility of Our Earth — Thus Fragile Earth for short. Actually our earth is quite large compared to us tiny humans, and it initially looks like we are the fragile ones. So let’s look at the size of the earth first. The earth...

In the last post we suggested that Canada might be thought of as a ‘shoestring country.’ Let’s look at a few basics about Canada’s population. Canada has 38.2 million people, almost the same as California, the most populous state in the US (with 39.5 million.) A European c...