What would happen if every bird on earth perished?
Mao Zedong is the expert, so ask him.
He had several amazing ideas while in power during his wacky rule in the 1960s and 1970s.
He not only destroyed Chinese culture and sacrificed significant portions of the populace, but he also exterminated all of the sparrows in China. Mosquitoes, rats, and flies were among the pests that the people was instructed to eradicate during the Four Pests Campaign of 1958–1962. Given that the first three of them are carriers of diseases like malaria and "the Black Death," they are at least partly logical. Because they took the seeds after the peasants had sowed the fields, sparrows were despised.
Killing every sparrow should result in increased harvests, right?
Let's get going.
In reality, they used all available means to hunt birds. To keep the little birds from landing, peasants continuously made noise near trees. After a while, the worn-out sparrows simply collapsed to the ground because they were unable to find any secure spots to rest. According to estimates, 2 billion of them perished quickly.
2.000.000.000 Mao, 0 sparrows
A never-seen issue emerged as a result of the species' abrupt extinction.
The sparrows were indeed devouring some of the seeds. The majority of their diet, however, consisted of insects like grasshoppers.The number of grasshoppers skyrocketed as the peasants eliminated the sparrow, a natural predator, throughout the course of the night. With their enormous appetites, they decimated entire harvests as they swept across the fields in their millions.
a biblical penalty for bad choices.
During the Great Leap Forward, the harvests were incredibly necessary. Due to famines caused by humans, people were already famished. An estimated 20 to 40 million people passed away. Things got worse because to the grasshoppers. It took years to get this unique pest under control.
The sparrow population hasn't fully rebounded even today.
As you've seen, years of famine result from the extinction of a single species.
Be kind to Sp and just hope that your predicament never occurs.
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