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Re: Jared Diamond



Devine, James wrote:

How did Jim get from environment "molding" history to the
environment determining history?

That puts him in agreement with Jeffrey Sachs, who's big on the theory that landlocked countries are poor because they're landlocked - not because they have, say, a history of being abused by colonists.

Doug



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