Over 795 million people in the world are hungry, and by 2050 there will be an additional 2 billion people to feed. Is the Earth able to provide enough food for our exploding population? What is the worst mistake that humans have ever made? According to an article by public intellectual Jared Diamond, humans decision to domesticate animals and intensively cultivate plants is “a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.” With an exponentially growing population , nearly 800 million people who are currently hungry , and catastrophic environmental damage from burning fossil fuels, centuries of trying optimize food production could culminate by sending us into an unprecedented global food crisis. Around 10,000 years ago humans abandoned hunting and gathering practices to remain in consistent areas to cultivate crops and develop agriculture, because more food was produced with less labour. Diamond states that the consequences of this transition lead […]