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100s of millions of sparrows and other birds died. In the absence of birds, insects flourished; crops vanished; and as many as 75 million people starved to death. How does that disaster echo in what is happening today, even in the US? Read on: therevelator.org/china-sparro.... #birds
Six Lessons From the World’s Deadliest Environmental Disaster • The Revelator
China’s Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to “conquer nature” but resulted in as many as 75 million human deaths.
therevelator.org
November 19, 2024 at 10:08 PM
100s of millions of sparrows and other birds died. In the absence of birds, insects flourished; crops vanished; and as many as 75 million people starved to death. How does that disaster echo in what is happening today, even in the US? Read on: therevelator.org/china-sparro.... #birds