(2) French geographer Vidal deLablache laid the foundationsof possibilism. He declaredthat man is not a passiveagent ruled by the forces ofnature which play their roleand determine man’s destinyand shape human society. Hedeveloped this geographicalapproach as a reaction to environmentaldeterminism thatregarded all the facets of humanactivity as ultimately determinedin character by thenatural-environmental context.