To today’s geographers, Semple may be a clear-cut environmental determinist. However, that is to say that the word “environmental determinism” was on the basis of what Semple had described, not how it is defined today. She was a strong believer in human society being the product of geographical location – which is the foundation for today’s definition – nonetheless, her definition went beyond this by including these already said products as a factor for future products of society. This definition was changed throughout the 20th century, and eventually replaced by the more limiting ideal; this is visible in the definition declared by the Dictionary of Human Geography. Today, the progressed environmental determinism is no longer reasoned by geographers.
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As aforementioned, Diamond attempts to answer the questions of why societies differentiate on different parts of the world in his novel, Guns, Germs and Steel. In the words of Diamond, “GGS seeks to understand the broad pattern of intercontinental differences among human societies, from the end of the Pleistocene to Columbus’s voyage in AD 1492 (2003, p.829). Throughout his book he makes analyzations that are worth noting and his novel is viewed as a classic example of determinism, despite he, himself, viewing the term as “baggage-laden” and a reason for people to “refuse to consider how geography actually does influence human societies” (2003, p.830). His book’s straightforward thesis of “societies are different” as a result of his outlined geographical reasons, is regarded as too simple by the likes of geographers like Mark Cowell, Andrew Sluyter, Paul Robbins and Lucy Jarosz in their contributions to an Antipode journal, yet they still bring up the matter that societal development is still worthy of an explanation. Nonetheless, the involvement of the physical environment within societal development at its commencement is
As aforementioned, Diamond attempts to answer the questions of why societies differentiate on different parts of the world in his novel, Guns, Germs and Steel. In the words of Diamond, “GGS seeks to understand the broad pattern of intercontinental differences among human societies, from the end of the Pleistocene to Columbus’s voyage in AD 1492 (2003, p.829). Throughout his book he makes analyzations that are worth noting and his novel is viewed as a classic example of determinism, despite he, himself, viewing the term as “baggage-laden” and a reason for people to “refuse to consider how geography actually does influence human societies” (2003, p.830). His book’s straightforward thesis of “societies are different” as a result of his outlined geographical reasons, is regarded as too simple by the likes of geographers like Mark Cowell, Andrew Sluyter, Paul Robbins and Lucy Jarosz in their contributions to an Antipode journal, yet they still bring up the matter that societal development is still worthy of an explanation. Nonetheless, the involvement of the physical environment within societal development at its commencement is