There are two different beliefs about what force drives the human-environment relationship and how humans are affected by this relationship: some believe that humans are the driving force and others believe the environment is in control of human actions. Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel believes that the environment determines the course of human history. William Cronon, author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, believes that humans have shaped the environment over time.
In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond looks at the inequality experienced in the world from the perspective that the location of a country determines its wealth.…