i recently read an arcticle by Jared Diamond entitled "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" although the arcticle is not recent (1987 to be exact). It made myself and eight other of my fellow students really think if becoming agricultural and developing civilizations was mankinds biggest misktake. Although everyone agrees that this was a major turning point in our history, would we have been better of being nomadic? I believe we are fine the way we are had we not settled down would we have the technology we have today? I think not when you move around a lot it is too hard to share ideas we would have never came up with the things we have today for instance a computer, which has allowed me to communicate with people from all over the world. If the human race had stayed nomadic would this have ever come about I dont really know but i seriously doubt it. The article itself was mainly about starvation and diseases that had come about due to the fact that people were no longer nomadic. But we have over come all of these problems and have many other wonderful and amazing things to show for it. So if we were meant to be nomadic dont you think that our ancestors would have just kept moving?
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our ancestors wouldn't of been able to stay nomadic because their population was growing and back then it would've been more convenient to collarborate to survive rather than fend for themselves. the rise of civilization was inevitable.
i agree, civilation and industrialization is not mankind's biggest mistake because it has allowed us to prosper in new ways, but it has had its consequences that have still remained unsolved such as global warming and diseases like HIV/AIDS. i believe that even if our ancestors knew that consequences would come from forming a village, town, city..., they would have created a civilization nonetheless. we cannot surivive on our own without the help of others.