Futurama comes to the real world.

The broken window fallacy again. This reminds me of the "cobra effect" where a bounty is instituted to eliminate a species, instead, it creates an industry breeding the animal so they can kill it and get the bounty.

And there it is. Government/environmentalist/activists lying so they can take more power... again.

>But the real threat to the spotted owls wasn’t the loggers, but other owls. Environmentalists had known and lied about the fact that barred owls were expanding their territory and driving out the spotted owls. But the spotted owls provided a convenient excuse for a government power grab. And now if the spotted owls disappear so does the excuse for government abuses of power.