Boing Boing Staging

The Cobra Effect: law of unintended consequences, squared

In British-ruled, cobra-infested India, a bounty was offered for cobra-skins, so enterprising folks started breeding cobras, leading to the program’s cancellation, whereupon all those farmed cobras were released into the wild, a net increase in cobra population. That’s not the only example, either.

(Image: Cobra, Kamalnv/Wikipedia, CC-BY)

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