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In reply to the discussion: Antarctica, Greenland ice definitely melting into sea, and speeding up, experts warn [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Agriculture isn't an "outcome". Its a different approach/idea/technique/way-of-life. Its been tried in many places, in many forms, and failed leading to collapse and conversion back to gathering. One ethnic group, primarily, got it down perfectly and used it to harness energy and dominate the globe after 5000 years of expansionism. That's the bottom line facts that is known today.
And no, I don't hold the whole human species as responsible or view today as some inevitable natural progression. It was a bad idea that allowed its users to spread it like wildfire. We are all living an unnecessary lie that is a direct contradiction of our previous hundred thousand years of collective experience. If anyone is a "human-hater", it is not me.
Im not sure where and when you formulated this theory of progression and overshoot, but it flies in the face of where anthropologist stand today.