Episode 266: The Raid on Short Creek, Part VI: I Know I Will Be Remembered for Short Creek
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Episode 266: The Raid on Short Creek, Part VI: I Know I Will Be Remembered for Short Creek

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 10, 202634 min

Governor J. Howard Pyle’s push to end polygamy on the Utah border not only fizzled, but it would create a massive political backlash against him. Even worse, it caused the fundamentalists to become more isolated and insular, which allowed the rise of Warren Jeffs and some of the worst abuses of plural marriage.

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Millions of birds were killed.

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Sometimes I think that the study of history should be called the study of unintended consequences. There are some famous examples that I use to illustrate this point, like how the extremely punitive measures imposed on Germany following the First World War was one of the major factors that caused the Second World War.

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Or how prohibition in the United States in the 1920s did not put an end to the consumption of alcohol, but rather allowed organized crime to proliferate. A personal favorite is the Four Pests campaign from Maoist China, which targeted sparrows as one of the titular Four Pests because they ate grain, fruits, and seeds.

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Millions of birds were killed. However, they were a major predator of locusts, so now that population grew out of control and played a large role in what is now known as the Great Chinese Famine. Let me just say that a lot of unintentional consequences tend to be ecological, which

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