Analysis Of The Worst Mistake Of The Human Race By Jared Diamond

Through careful sociological studies, one can see that the impact of agriculture is beneficial to life. In the article “The Worst Mistake of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond, he argues that agriculture “was in many ways a catastrophe” and “with agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.” Although this may be somewhat true, many would disagree. Agriculture doesn’t lead to inequality nor diseases. The differences between humans lead to inequality and poor agriculture leads to diseases. Differences between humans such as their sex and what they are capable of doing leads to inequality, not agriculture. Poor agriculture such as using urine to water plants creates and spreads