>"Geographic determinism runs no deeper than blind faith

>>1059902

you mean that geography is not a determining factor or...?

>>1059935

The argument = geography is not the be all and end all as an outside, deterministic force. More digestible, maybe more business-oriented variation on the "environmental determinism is a problematic discourse" line in academic Geography circles.

>>1059948

the only problem i see with it is how they used to assign mentality traits to populations depending on climate, which has been debunked and pretty much abandoned, but the relation betveen a culture and the enviroment it reproduces in is kind of a obvious thing

thing is geographic determinism used to be more about local people and explaining away cultural and economic diferences by crap like 'warm climate makes you lazy', than realy about analizing how some specific climate and geography sets conditions for development of say, forms of architecture or complex economy

apparently 'enviromental' determinism is a updated version

His writing is generic techno optimism desu

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>isolated systems
So is this a strawman OP, or people legitimately subscribe to a kind of geographical idealism?

>>1059902
Oceans make pretty good borders.

>living in different environments doesn't mold you a bit differently
Really?

>>1061097

Determinism is seen as problematic for taking away human agency, and also assigning discriminatory stereotypes to populations who live by different standards

>>1059902
Bullshit.

Tropical island people, Guam, Samoa, Hawaii, are the fattest laziest fucks on the planet. Dumb as rocks too.

>>1061097
Montesquieu, kinda. But not if you read him properly.