The Controversy on Agricultures
Mankind has gone through numerous changes that have defined life today. Humans have developed technology and discovered resources that are essential to ones everyday life. Some of the changes weren’t for pleasure but vital to survive on Earth. These changes may not benefit humans but allow us to survive: agriculture. Jared Diamond explains in the article “The worst mistake in the history of the Human Race” stating that “…the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.” I do believe agriculture had some bad but also good things that came along although the development of agriculture was to happen no matter what.
Diamond defends his point of view with a variety of arguments. For instance, he argues that human height changed in Turkey and Greece has decreased. There were skeletons found and paleopathologists learned that “…average height of hunger-gatherers toward the end
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To begin with, families were able to be stable and advance in other technologies and establish cities. Due to the advantage to settle in one place other industries opened creating a modern industry. Architecture, language, and art also made a huge advancement when mankind began to settle in areas.
Jared Diamond made quite reasonable allegations to defend his point of view on why agriculture was not the best thing that could have happened to mankind. I do think that human being gained a lot of knowledge because of agriculture but also gained stratification and diseases. However, agriculture was one of the things that were inevitable. Without the changes that our ancestors went through life wouldn’t be comfortable as it is today, even though not all counties are as blessed as the United States. Agriculture allowed humans to expand their minds and create innovating inventions developing a new