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I have a little mixed feelings about this. But internally I think there will be consequences at a later stage.    It's funny that it goes out, I remembered how someone was explaining to me that going from just growing plants for food would not have an impact on ecosystems. But now that I think about it, if only one place had such a problem where the food for the wild animals was running low due to drought or other problems they would immediately go to the farms. I think something similar happened with the elephants in Asia, where they poisoned them because at one point there was no food for them in the jungle.
We know it ended well for China... >

killing of the sparrows vibe >

I read this as Kanye, not Kenya, took me a second but it wasn’t really out of the norm either >

Birds always win these wars.. >

I''m sure this time it won't end in misery and shame like every previous instance.
When will people learn, the dinos aways win. >

Great Australian Emu War flashbacks aside, this is actually a serious problem.
Right now the main solution people are trying appears to be poison, which is not ideal, because spraying poison on the crops kills the birds who eat them, but it also is bad for the people who eat the crops. It also kills of the predators that would normally eat these birds making the problem even worse for the future.
As always this sort of problem would exist without climate change but is made worse by it. >

Australia looks on with concern.
This does not end well. >

Mao tried that, didn't work >

When China did that, bugs overpopulated and led to the biggest famine in modern history. >

In the future, historians shall call it "the Great Quelea War." >

Trying to wage war on nature goes nowhere. >

This never ends well >

would letting the cats out help? >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


Farmers in western Kenya stand to lose close to 60 tonnes of grain to the birds.
In wheat-growing parts of Kenya, Thomsett added, farmers have sprayed any species of birds deemed to be a threat to farms, "Yet some of the birds are there to feed on insects that feed on their wheat".
It added: "Given that the birds' migrations and breeding opportunities are determined by patterns of rainfall, it is possible to devise forecasting systems to predict where the birds are likely to breed and, thus, to concentrate activities in search of the colonies to areas where the birds are likely to be."


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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


Farmers in western Kenya stand to lose close to 60 tonnes of grain to the birds.
In wheat-growing parts of Kenya, Thomsett added, farmers have sprayed any species of birds deemed to be a threat to farms, "Yet some of the birds are there to feed on insects that feed on their wheat".
It added: "Given that the birds' migrations and breeding opportunities are determined by patterns of rainfall, it is possible to devise forecasting systems to predict where the birds are likely to breed and, thus, to concentrate activities in search of the colonies to areas where the birds are likely to be."


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