…The British governor of Delhi set out to
reduce the city’s large cobra population, and the lethal bites that went along
with it. The plan? Set a bounty on cobras. The city collected large numbers of
dead cobras, yet the streets were still a-slither. Turns out, people were
farming cobras for a steady stream of income from cobras bounties.
Once the government got wise to the cobra
farming scheme, they ended the bounty program, which created the true cobra
effect. Now that they were stuck with a bunch of worthless and potentially
deadly snakes, the farmers simply released the cobras. Delhi’s snake problems
were worse than ever—it wasn’t just an ineffective policy, the Delhi cobra
bounty disastrously compounded the problem. --- Quartz
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