While I agree with some points that Jared Diamond brought up, I truly believe that agriculture helped to improve civilization and started the progress for mankind in a positive direction. While hunting and gathering helped to sustain mankind, without agriculture mankind could not have continued to move forward in a positive direction. Diamond says, "Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style in human history. In contrast, we’re still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us" which is true but without farming and cultivating land hunter-gatherers could not have survived with continuing without settling. An agriculture lifestyle helps to supply somewhat of a support and security to a community instead of depending of continues migration.