http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
Some of what is outlined in Jared Diamond’s “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” has been seriously challenged. However, his opening statement rings true, i.e., “To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image.”
Agriculture has contributed–at least at times and in places—to:
• social and gender inequality,
• disease and despotism,
• malnutrition and starvation, and
• increased human population pressure on Nature.
Only through recognition of this can we begin to right the local and global problems of rampant destruction of Nature and the natural resource base … and of gross inequities, i.e., begin a holistic, comprehensive, and profound process of Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology.