Hello everyone! My name is Laura Young and I am currently a senior enrolled at Penn State University Park. Right now I am living in State College, Pennsylvania but I am from Ronkonkoma, New York, which is located on Long Island. I am an advertising major with minors in Chinese and International Studies. After graduation this spring, I hope to have a career relating to digital advertising in New York City in the upcoming year. My interest in this course comes from never taking a geography course throughout my college career. I’ve taken a geoscience class but not a class relating to sustainability and human-environment interactions. Since I am not knowledgeable on topics relating to geography, I would like to learn as much as I can during this semester.

I think geography would be well suited to address the topic of sustainability. With the limited resources available on the planet, it is important that people learn to use the available resources around them without harming the environment and also the planet so that future generations can also coexist with nature. If people do not take into account the amount of resources they are currently using, it will have negative impacts on future generations, as they will have to work with the extremely limited resources left for them. Since there are many different opinions on this topic, it has become difficult to progress society without damaging the ecosystems around us. Through this, the concept of governance is one obstacle since there are constraints on how people can make changes to increase sustainability.