Sentence examples for geographical luck from inspiring English sources

Although "Guns, Germs and Steel" has been celebrated as an antidote to racism — Western civilization prevails not because of inherent superiority, but geographical luck — some anthropologists saw it as excusing the excesses of the conquerors.

This was the heart of the underdevelopment critique: the claim that what made rich nations rich and kept poor nations poor was not geographical bad luck or the wrong policies, much less an unproductive "culture", but the ongoing legacy of colonialism, slavery and resource extraction.

And they know that nuclear reactors are the one proven way to make carbon-dioxide-free electricity in large and reliable quantities that does not depend (as hydroelectric and geothermal energy do) on the luck of the geographical draw.

From where I was sitting on the bench with Hassan, I saw that basic human rights are dependent on the luck of the geographical location into which you are born.

They are caught in circumstances, trapped, if you will, by a host of largely unrelated happenstance: bad governments, bad weather, bad neighbors, and bad luck dealt to them by the geographical birth lottery.

Geographical distribution is another.

Geographical variation is huge.

Luck matters.

Good Luck!

Luck, Owen Craig.

Tough luck.