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Bibliography
http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/envdeterminism.htm
Environmental Determinism
An early 20th century approach to study the way the physical enviroment effected human activities.
Possibilism
The way human ability affects the physical environment.
Environmental Determinism
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Possibilism
E.D's impact on society
Environmental Determinism had a negative impact on society by allowing people in more developed countries to label the inferior people leading to racism. This also led to theories stating that the economic development in a country can be predicted based on its distance from the equator. Which led to premature generalizations about an area’s culture with out research or observations.
Possibilism's impact on society
Possibilism lead to labeling people due to their choices on shape the environment to benefit the society. This was developed to replace E.D to to explain cultural development more accurately.