...Jared Diamond made some compelling arguments about why the consequences of agriculture could be considered negative but, overall he did not make a compelling enough argument that agriculture is the worst mistake in human history. Without agriculture I don’t believe that there would be as sophisticated and as large of a society that we have today. The benefits of agriculture outweigh the consequences. Diamond points out that agriculture came out of the need to feed more people. When groups of hunter and gathers were faced with a growing population they had two options: to split into smaller groups or to settle down and adopt agriculture. Had more groups decided not to take up agriculture and the population continued to grow, then the food resources...
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...Thesis: James Diamond believes that the shift from hunter-gather societies farming societies was the worst mistake in the history of the human race. Support: Diamond gives many examples to provide support for his claim. He compares modern day farmers and hunger-gathers and states that the hunter-gathers have more free time, better food, and less hours of work when compared to their counterparts. He also points out that in societies that switched from hunter-gathering to farming, that paleopathologists have shown that the former had better quality of life. Role: The author Jared Diamond points out that modern hunger-gatherers, when compared to farmers, work less, have more leisure time, sleep more than enough, and have better diets. One of...
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