Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. As Moss shows, this “Great Sparrow Campaign” was based on nothing more than the “scientific illiteracy and unbridled power” of one man, Mao Zedong. Various experts are enlisted in support of this idea. What claptrap.
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