Question

give 5 examples of ecological backlash

Answer 1

The campaign against the 'Four Pests' was initiated in 1958 as a hygiene campaign by Mao Zedong, who identified the need to exterminate mosquitoes, flies, rats, and sparrows. Sparrows – mainly the Eurasian Tree Sparrow[1][2] – were included on the list because they ate grain seeds, robbing the people of the fruits of their labour. The masses of China were mobilized to eradicate the birds, and citizens took to banging pots and pans or beating drums to scare the birds from landing, forcing them to fly until they fell from the sky in exhaustion. Sparrow nests were torn down, eggs were broken, and nestlings were killed.[3] Sparrows and other birds were shot down from the sky, resulting in the near-extinction of the birds in China.[4] Non-material rewards and recognition were offered to schools, work units and government agencies in accordance with the volume of pests they had killed.

By April 1960, Chinese leaders realized that sparrows ate more insects than grains. Mao ordered the end of the campaign against sparrows, replacing them with bedbugs in the ongoing campaign against the Four Pests.[3] By this time, however, it was too late. With no sparrows to eat them, locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and compounding the ecological problems already caused by the Great Leap Forward, including widespread deforestation and misuse of poisons and pesticides. Ecological imbalance is credited with exacerbating the Great Chinese Famine in which upwards of 30 million people died of starvation.
Leave nature alone and it will balance itself...it works (the dao)
Silently on its own without interference, work with nature and harmony will come.
The problem is interference as Flossie puts so well with fact! Man interferes and alters the natural way of nature and pays the price. That does not mean that man can't work with nature...the disasters that happen are normally the result of man messing in areas that he can't control well enough. One example let a nuclear bomb off and hey presto earthquake in another part of the world.
To every action an equal and opposite reaction....nature at work.
When man understands fully that to work with nature not against it...man will thrive otherwise he is
a bad place. Oil spills and wildlife impact...the list is endless. We can get renewable energy from wind and solar power but that is going to put some out of making money....that's the problem we have to change our view