Nimble fingers to shrinking apples: Unlearning the junk science of school geography

Nimble fingers to shrinking apples: Unlearning the junk science of school geography

Image: Shutterstock Andrew Brooks on how geographers must keep challenging false ideas and develop new, truthful theories There were two outdated ideas from my 1990s secondary school geography classes that have long stuck in my memory. The first, from the physical side of the discipline, was the ‘shrinking apple’ thesis – otherwise known as ‘geophysical global cooling’. This theory was an alternative to the concept of plate tectonics. It posite…