I wouldn’t recommend reading it, not just because of it’s historical short comings but also because it’s a real slog at parts.
It’s not completely accurate but it is someone arguing against racism and almost getting there wrt to materialism so if it meets someone where they are at to push them away from worse ideas then it’s ok even though there are much better books they could have read instead.
It’s bad if someone is idk really committed to geographic determinism but at this point I think that group is literally just Jared Diamond himself.