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Re: Jared Diamond

Ellsworth Huttington pushed this idea many years ago.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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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