Recent events call to mind a classic science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, ?A Sound of Thunder.? It?s a tale of time travel, in which a group of hunters pay a guide to take them back to prehistoric times for a safari aimed at bagging a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
After they arrive in the past, the guide warns the hunters about the necessity of minimizing their impact on the environment by staying on a designated path and not touching anything, since even tiny alterations to the past could snowball into large and possibly dramatic effects on subsequent history. As far as the hunting, they will be killing only animals that were going to be dying at that moment anyway.
Without going into the details and complications of the plot, of course one of the hunters veers off the path and does a number of things that affect the local landscape
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