Summary Of The Worst Mistake In The Human Race

After reading the article “ The Worst Mistake In the History of the Human Race” and doing further research on the effect of agriculture on human history and development, I have a neutral standpoint although I lean towards the author, Jared Diamond’s opinion. Agriculture just about ruined us as a society for several reasons such as gender roles/ inequality, soil erosion, and a strain for natural resources. However, even though society has declined since agriculture’s rise to popularity it has benefitted in some ways as well, such as industrialization which gave way to medicine and new technologies that changed life as we know it. “Women earn .75 cents for every man’s dollar”, a common phrase when talking about inequality. As a young woman in

When land is prepped and plowed to make way for farmland, what’s leftover (the exposed topsoil) can be easily blown away by the wind or conveyed by rainwater. Like how Brazil loses 55 million tons of topsoil per year because of soy production. This makes way for reduced soil fertility and degraded land. Waterways also suffer from agriculture when the soil is conveyed by rainwater it ends up in rivers and lakes. As a result, the waterway becomes clogged and ends up having a negative impact on several different species marine animals. More than the eroded soil, pesticides and fertilizers from the topsoil is polluting the water and killing marine life as

With sedentary people inventions started popping up left and right in order to make life easier. Of course, the very impressive inventions did not take place until much after the switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture, but our most marveled inventions would not have been possible without it. Do you know anyone that has recently died of smallpox? Neither do I, diseases and infections are inevitable and curious human beings being in one place allowed us to sit down, stop, and really think about the problem at hand and how to solve