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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
Jared's book "Gun's, Germs & Steel" is indeed awesome. I haven't read this article yet, BUT one thing is for sure, one has to accept the good with the bad. Whatever ills agriculture has brought humanity, it is also largely responsible for the modern civilization that we take for granted.
If we were still living as hunter gatherers, we'd still have a tiny human population across the globe and a primitive means of living for everyone without modern technology. Would you want to trade the world we have, as flawed as it is, for some fantasy idea of living like what anthropologists used to call "the noble savages"?
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In a heartbeat. The unabomber lived better than many of us do today in his cabin in the woods. And I'd love nothing more than wipe out 2/3s of the world population with a single stroke of the brush. Human beings need population control just like everything else.