I've been to "tropical Asia" and a large part of the Philippines and Thailand still live in huts or cinder block houses. You can add the Caribbean to the list of undeveloped areas as well.
I've heard this theory before and I ascribe to it. In warm areas with plentiful food, there is no external stimulus forcing invention and development.
I think part of it is the initial necessity being required, and then once you have begun the inventing/innovating in order to overcome the necessity that it then starts to foster a culture of doing those things. Which in a way, creates a positive feedback loop of further invention and innovation.
Why do you see people in Africa walking around with bags and other heavy things balanced on their heads? Don’t they know that it’s warm out and there is plentiful food so there is no need to carry anything from one place to another?
Necessity is the mother of invention. Europeans developed because winter forced them to, tropical climates don't need much development to be livable.
They didn't. The Asian countries that advanced were ones with winter.
Ever notice that Korea is more advanced than Laos and Vietnam? Korea has harsh winters.
As does Japan.
I've been to "tropical Asia" and a large part of the Philippines and Thailand still live in huts or cinder block houses. You can add the Caribbean to the list of undeveloped areas as well.
I've heard this theory before and I ascribe to it. In warm areas with plentiful food, there is no external stimulus forcing invention and development.
It makes the most sense. More than WHUITES kept us down.
By what, a decade or two?
The only developed parts are former French colonies.
I think part of it is the initial necessity being required, and then once you have begun the inventing/innovating in order to overcome the necessity that it then starts to foster a culture of doing those things. Which in a way, creates a positive feedback loop of further invention and innovation.
It doesn't explain ancient middle eastern cultures either, like the empires in Egypt or Babylon.
They never invented the wheel cause it’s warm out? Lmao
Yeah that's it, because it's warm out.
Not because there was plentiful food year round and you never really had to go anywhere to get it.
Nope, because its warm out.
Why do you see people in Africa walking around with bags and other heavy things balanced on their heads? Don’t they know that it’s warm out and there is plentiful food so there is no need to carry anything from one place to another?
Oh yeah carrying one bag somewhere definitely requires a cart.
The wheel was invented because people had to travel dozens or hundreds of miles. Not a hundred yards down to the river and back.