コブラ効果

前田・後藤著「プロジェクト譜」の本をいくつか読みました。プロジェクト譜、は定型業務ではない創造的な業務「プロジェクト」の各段階を「棋譜」のように記述して管理・意識共有に役立てるというものです。

https://www.sbbit.jp/article/cont1/33718

本の中で紹介されていたエピソードで面白いものを紹介します。社会に出たらその手の研修に出させられることもあるでしょう。「それ知ってる」になってしまって感動が薄れるかもしれません。その場合は申し訳ありません。

コブラ効果: コブラを減らそうとして死骸を買う制度を作ったら、コブラの養殖をして却って(かえって)増えた。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect から
*** Original
The term cobra effect originated in an anecdote that describes an occurrence during India under British rule. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi. The government therefore offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.

cobra コブラ
anecdote 「ア」ネクドート 小話、逸話(既出)
under British rule イギリス支配下の
be concerned about 憂慮して
venomous 毒の venom 毒 ヴィーノム
bounty 報奨金、博愛、賜物(たまもの)バウンティ
enterprising 進取の気性に富む、積極的な
breed 育てる 「犬のブリーダー」 などで日本語になっていますね。

*** Carbon credits for HFC-23 2005年の温室効果ガス対策も同様の結末。
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change kicked off an incentive scheme in 2005 to cut down on greenhouse gases. Companies disposing of polluting gases get rewarded with carbon credits, which could eventually get converted into cash. The program set prices according to how serious the damage the pollutant could do to the environment was, and attributed one of the highest bounties for destroying HFC-23, a byproduct of a common coolant. As a result, companies began to produce more of this coolant in order to destroy more of the byproduct waste gas, and collect millions of dollars in credits. Credits for the destruction of HFC-23 were suspended in the European Union in 2013.

coolant 冷媒
suspend 停止する

*** Autobiography of Mark Twain トムソーヤ作者の自伝にハエの例。
Once in Hartford the flies were so numerous for a time, and so troublesome, that Mrs. Clemens conceived the idea of paying George a bounty on all the flies he might kill. The children saw an opportunity here for the acquisition of sudden wealth. … Any Government could have told her that the best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India, is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them.

scalp 頭、頭の皮、勝利のしるし
patriot 愛国者
opportunity for the acquisition of sudden wealth 急にお金が入るチャンス
raise 育てる レイズ

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