I wasn’t talking about an agricultural collapse. I mean the natural food chain will collapse.

If you kill all the mammals, then the birds of prey will go extinct, and stuff the mammals eat will overrun what’s left.

If you don’t, then the mammals will keep spreading all sorts of pandemics.

For example, if you live in Silicon Valley, start feeding the squirrels in the woods near you. Eventually, they’ll give you the Bubonic Plague.

The plague is not a big deal these days, thanks to antibiotics, but this is an entire hemisphere away from where it hit, and hundreds of years later.

It wouldn’t surprise me if you could already catch covid from a squirrel if you tried hard enough.

Apparently people catch it from bats fairly regularly, and on average, they don’t get nearly as close to humans as an average rodent would.