The Worst Mistake In The Human Race Analysis

In the story “The Worst mistake in the History of the Human Race” Diamond raised several different key points about the arrival of agriculture. Diamond, Rousseau and Gray was not fond on agriculture, but throughout the story they mention how agriculture was bad for humankind because it increased calorie quantity at the cost of quality, because it contributed to deep class divisions. Despite its chances of dividing everyone into different groups; the arrival of agriculture is what everyone needed to survive and come together. Its purpose was to create a stable environment for everyone to live in. Furthermore, Diamond explained the reasons why he was not too fond with the arrival of agriculture. First, the hunter gatherers were on a varied diet, which did not allowed them to consume a lot of food, “hunter-gatherers enjoyed a varied diet, while early …show more content…
During the Ice Age, the rising sea levels in the Middle East forced the hunter-gatherers to move to the uplands. At this point all the available resources that were available before were no longer in existence. Also, the hunter`-gathers destroyed a lot of their environment themselves because of settlers. They turned to agriculture for survival. The decision to switch from hunter-gathering to farming did take a toll on their health and life expectancy. The transition from hunting and gathering to farming requires a lot more work. In spite of the comparisons, there are a few difference of the agriculture between Diamond, Rousseau and Gray. In the story, “The worst mistake in human history” the hunter-gathers did not have much crops at all. They replied heavenly on one crop to reproduce more of the same product. If the crop did not survive then the hunter-gathers would suffer from starvation. The hunter-gathers in the Rousseau and Gray story had an abundance of crops. If one crop failed, they had other crops available for them to use for