The people begin to understand their environment and the forces of nature with the passage of time. With social and cultural development, humans develop better and more efficient technology. They move from a state of necessity to a state of freedom. They create possibilities with the resources obtained from the environment. The human activities create cultural landscape. The imprints of human activities are created everywhere; health resorts on highlands, huge urban sprawls, fields, orchards and pastures in plains and rolling hills, ports on the coasts, oceanic routes on the oceanic surface and satellites in the space. The earlier scholars termed this as possibilism. Nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanised and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavour.

Which of the following is NOT true about possibilism:

Nature plays active role here

The correct answer is option 2: Nature plays active role here

In possibilism, humans are considered the active agents who modify and utilise nature according to their needs with the help of science and technology. Nature provides opportunities or possibilities, but humans make choices.

• Nature gets humanised — Correct.
• Science and technology help in creating possibilities — Correct.
• Also termed as humanisation of nature — Correct.

The idea that nature plays the active role is associated more with environmental determinism, not possibilism.