![]() ![]() Environmental probabilism is the notion that a given environment can be modified in many probable ways for a particular purpose through sound environmental engineering,as oppo sed to environmental determinism. Meaning given whatever environmental conditions we are able to overcome them through knowledge, skills, technology and money. Possibilism is the belief that anything is possible. Such ideas gathered force in the wake of Darwin. It was taken up again in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws(1748), which argued that legislative regulation should be framed within the constraints of the social and environmental conditions (especially climate) to which it applies. ![]() ![]() The concept appears to have originated with Hippocrates and Aristotle. In the late 1800s and early 1900s the concept briefly enjoyed the status of a dominant paradigm in western geographical thought, especially as it provided some ideological motives for colonialism. Hence, factors of culture, race and intelligence are supposed to derive from the benign or malign influences of climate, and other aspects of human habitat. Environmental determinism is the doctrine that human growth, development and activities are controlled by the physical environment ( ).
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