Which statement best characterizes the effects the agricultural revolution and the world environment had on each other? agriculturalists congregated in villages and towns in an effort to decrease their impact on the world environment. agriculture and pastoralism caused the human population to increase, which destroyed the world’s natural resources. (this one was wrong) human beings turned to agriculture and pastoralism to give animal species a chance to recover from excessive hunting. agriculturalists and pastoralists had to exercise careful management of earth’s natural resources to avoid depleting them.