Cobra Effect

Famous unintended consequence of UK offering bounty on venomous snakes: people bred them to make money. The disastrous outcome in Colonial India. There were too many poisonous snakes, so the Brits offered a bounty on them. So people started breeding them for bounty. The government cancelled the bounty, and the cobras were set free: increasing the total population. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 1998-09-05

• Cobra Effect, after the disastrous outcome in Colonial India. There were too many poisonous snakes, so the Brits offered a bounty on them. So people started breeding them for bounty. The government cancelled the bounty, and the cobras were set free: increasing the total population.

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