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A recent advert for British Telecom claimed that “ geography is dead“. Drawing on examples from around the globe, evaluate the validity of this statement In today’s world geography plays a very important role in everything from day to day life through to major world issues. In numerous decisions made by many people geographers and geography in general play important roles. The recent British Telecom advert states that “ geography is dead“ which in many ways is not valid. In this essay I will show to what extent geography is not dead and evaluate the validity of this statement. Geography itself covers many different titles and can mean many different things. Physical and Human Geography’s are the two main types of geography found, each with many other titles under this main title.. Differing types of Physical geography cover the actual things happening around us. The earth’s functions, movements and disasters are all covered by physical geography and is the most commonly understood perspective of modern geography. Human geography is a much less perceived type of geography yet plays just as large a part in the world as physical geography. Human geography, as the name suggests, is directly involved in human