According to the author, the main reason why Bregman contrasts life in pre-agricultural societies with agricultural societies is to: &nbsp;

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According to the author, the main reason why Bregman contrasts life in pre-agricultural societies with agricultural societies is to:

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A.
advocate the promotion of less complex societies as a basis for greater security and prosperity.
B.
bolster his argument that people are basically decent, but progress as we know it can make them selfish.
C.
highlight the enormous impact that settled farming had on population growth.
D.

make the argument that an environmentally conscious lifestyle is a more harmonious way of living.

Option C is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

According to the author, Bregman "paints a picture of a prelapsarian idyll in which, for the better part of 300,000 years, Homo sapiens lived a fulfilling life in harmony with nature . . . Then we discovered agriculture and for the next 10,000 years it was all property, war, greed and injustice". Thus, Bregman, according to the author, portrays agriculture and progress as the root cause for greed and selfishness.