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While this accurately reflects the popular belief and perception in the geographic community towards environmental determinism, the debate was overlaid with hues of gray.

Rostlund pointed out in his essay in Readings in Cultural Geography: " Environmentalism was not disproved, only disapproved.

" He also points to the fact that the disapproval was not based on inaccurate findings, but rather a methodological process which stands in contrast to that of science, something the geographers have arguably sought to ascribe themselves to.

Carl O. Sauer followed on from this in 1924 when he criticized the premature generalizations resulting from the bias of environmentalism.

He pointed out that to define geography as the study of environmental influences is to assume in advance that such influences do operate, and that a science cannot be based upon or committed to a preconception.