Jared's book "Gun's, Germs & Steel" is indeed awesome. I haven't read this article yet, BUT one thing is for sure, one has to accept the good with the bad. Whatever ills agriculture has brought humanity, it is also largely responsible for the modern civilization that we take for granted.
If we were still living as hunter gatherers, we'd still have a tiny human population across the globe and a primitive means of living for everyone without modern technology. Would you want to trade the world we have, as flawed as it is, for some fantasy idea of living like what anthropologists used to call "the noble savages"?
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http://www.awok.org/worst-mistake/
Basic thesis: Agriculture was probably humanity's greatest mistake. It produced overdependence on a monolithic diet that produced serious health consequences. It produces the classic scourge of class inequality and led to gender inequality.
Interesting article but I don't buy all of it. It's refreshing to see a well-argued contrarian view though. It was written by Jared Diamond, the scholar behind the AWESOME BOOK Guns Germs and Steel
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