Monday, October 29, 2007

Agriculture as a Mistake

"Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" is a long read (a little over 2,700 words).

I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, and I caught of whiff of some all-too-familiar political notions, but this piece is well-written. Basically, the author's arguing that humanity had it pretty good, until agriculture came along.
Update (April 26, 2010)

Looks like Jared Diamond's article about the error of agriculture has been moved - or pulled off the Internet entirely. I got a 404 error on the original link, and was unable to find a current location for the piece.

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