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3 billion is catastrophic. Jfc
Memes aside, how many birds were killed during the 4 Pests Campaign? Because that's what caused all the starvation during the Great Leap Forward when there weren't birds to eat insects which caused huge swarms of locusts to eat all the crops.
Something similar could happen here in the US, except it will be the collapse of ecosystems due to not enough pollinators, rather than biblical plagues destroying all the grain.
I just heard of hundreds of millions of sparrows. Not sure about other species. If things collapse like that in the US....