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History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
The Chinese Government's Plan to Kill the Locusts
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After the campaign had been underway for some time, the insect population in China exploded. The sparrow was really one of its only natural predators. And because of that severe imbalance that now existed between predator and prey, the population of locusts exploded.
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