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Not understanding sparrows role in the game caused the Four Pests campaign. MILLIONS DEAD.

The ecological repercussions translated into a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions. The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people.

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PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah let’s abandon all tech and return to god or something.

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- SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  eager to go “all in”
  
  Is what I said, “let’s abandon” is what you said.
  
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  - PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You should check out twitter. It’s like the place for insecure people to impotently rage that someone said some words that weren’t good enough.
    
    Best wishes I guess. You seem to need them.
    
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    SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You seem to need to tell people what they didn’t say and tell them where you want them to go.
    
    So… Could be a Republican, or a troll farm, or an A.I. extension for Chrome, or a bot, or my Ex (we still don’t get along).
    
    Say another stupid thing so I can figure it out.
    
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Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
We also didnt understand how the internet would change the world, still went ahead with it. We didnt understand how computers would change the world, still went ahead with it, we didnt understand how the steam engine would change the world… etc etc.

No one can know how a new invention will change things, but you are not going to be able to crush human’s innate creativity and drive to try new things. Sometimes those things are going to be a net negative and that’s bad, but the alternative is to insist nothing new is tried and thats A bad and B not possible.

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