"Basically, Quinn says that the development of organized farming (in his words, the introduction of 'totalitarian agriculture') about ten thousand years ago was ... a mistake. Growing more food than necessary led to an increase in population, which led to territorial expansion, which led to more land being cultivated, which led to a surplus of food, which led to an increase in population, which led to territorial expansion and so on over the next ten millennia until about 150 years ago, when civilization reached places like Africa and New Zealand and had covered most of the habitable world."
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