Comment Sounds familiar (Score 1) 355
This reminds me a bit of Maos Great Sparrow Campaign:
The sparrows are eating our crops. Kill'em! Oh! Sparrows were eating locusts, too. Locusts are eating more crops than sparrows did. Remove locust habitat by pulling up grass! Oh! Grass was keeping sand from creating dust storms. Great. Now we have neither sparrows, locusts, grass, food nor breathable air.
Bottom line. Don't mess with an ecosystem on which you depend and don't understand.