When battle plans backfire
Engineering errors that made history
Lost in translation and calculation
Ecological and nature backfires
schopenhauer Ecological backfires
We cleared the sparrows from the sky (they're gone, they're gone) / And watched the locust plagues arise (oh, they arise)
schopenhauer Cane toads are imported to eat beetles but end up poisoning local wildlife instead.
In 1958, China's campaign to eradicate sparrows backfired by causing an explosion of which pest?
In 1876, the aggressive vine Kudzu was introduced to the United States from which country?
Eradication errors: China's 1958 campaign against sparrows caused a locust plague so severe that it contributed to a famine killing millions of people.
schopenhauer Kudzu is introduced to control soil erosion but smothers millions of acres of native forests.
What was the name of the US Forest Service policy that required all wildfires to be put out by the next morning?
What was the official name of the campaign launched by Mao Zedong that included the war on sparrows?
The control of a pest by the introduction of a natural enemy or predator. In 1935, Australia introduced cane toads to eat beetles, but this biological effort failed catastrophically.
How many wild rabbits did Thomas Austin release in Australia in 1859, starting a major ecological crisis?
schopenhauer Extinguish every small blaze to discover how total fire suppression fueled megafires.