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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the best examples of unintended consequences, aiding in one of the largest human caused disasters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to call it "The Great Stumble Backwards"

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Followed closely by the cannibal revolution

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another good example is when the Soviet Union dammed the Aral Sea in order to create irrigation canals for cotton and other produce in the region. It worked at first and they had a huge economic boom, but this is also one of history's most prominent examples of "Ecological Collapse"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea#Irrigation_canals

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, they did produce the cotton they wanted...

It's less an example of a blunder and more an example of how few fucks the Soviets gave about being "green".