The role of environmental determinism was used as a racist tool by saying that one culture or race was less developed or civilized when compared to others. “A subclass of environmental determinism, called climatic determinism developed in the early 1900s. Ellsworth Huntington developed a theory that detailed that the economic development in a country can be predetermined based on its distance away from the equator. Huntington said temperate climates with short growing seasons would stimulate societal success, economic growth, and productivity.” (Briney) Huntington concluded that the effortlessness of growing things in the tropics would then delay a society from progression since they would not have to work as hard to survive. Huntington also
