A Note on CC Human Geography
We have removed and are re-working our Crash Course Human Geography series. John explains. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?
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Hi, I'm John Green, and this is not Crash Course. Instead, I'm here to talk about why we're hitting the pause button on our human geography series to go back and rework it. In the last few months, we've been trying to grow Crash Course, both on the curricular side of things and in terms of the number of videos we make per week without increases to our budget or staffing, and that was a mistake. It led to a rushed production schedule, inadequately edited and vetted scripts and the Human Geography videos had factual mistakes as well as too strident a tone. We wrongly lumped Jared Diamond in with racist colonial geographers and we did a bad job of explaining what environmental determinism was before saying that it had been wholly debunked, which is not accurate. Crash Course needs to have a...
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Hi, I'm John Green, and this is not Crash Course. Instead, I'm here to talk about why we're hitting the pause button on our human geography series to go back and rework it. In the last few months, we've been trying to grow Crash Course, both on the curricular side of things and in terms of the number of videos we make per week without increases to our budget or staffing, and that was a mistake. It led to a rushed production schedule, inadequately edited and vetted scripts and the Human Geography videos had factual mistakes as well as too strident a tone. We wrongly lumped Jared Diamond in with racist colonial geographers and we did a bad job of explaining what environmental determinism was before saying that it had been wholly debunked, which is not accurate. Crash Course needs to have a...
