Continued from (I) In answering this question it's helpful to begin with historian Fernand Braudel's understanding of geography's essential role in shaping the history of Homo sapiens — “humanity's relation with the inanimate.” Additionally, this can be understood as the relationship of humankind with innumerable, distinct, sublimely animate ecological systems, all in part shaped by local geography. In an era in desperate need of coming to terms, to account for, much of the destructive ecological change manufactured by industrialization, representing these systems is an essential component to reforming government.