For decades, greens in the West have urged poor nations to go organic and fully embrace ESG. Only Sri Lanka did. The result was catastrophic food shortages, a radical drop in tea production, and a financial crisis that has brought down the government.
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The war on productive farming takes different forms around the world. In the Netherlands, green elites want to radically reduce nitrogen pollution, even though it has declined dramatically over the last 30 years. Finally, farmers are defending themselves.
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ESG, organics, and renewables are not an alternative to but extension of the neoliberal project of imposing austerity on the poor, notes
By going (fake) “green,” the Left became part of the elite financial project they used to denounce.
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“Governments of both rich and poor nations alike are testing how much of a burden they can force onto their working classes to restrict their national carbon outputs.”
Working people are rising up against it. “We saw it in France, with the revolt of the Yellow Vests…”
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“Last week we saw it in Sri Lanka, whose government has collapsed in the face of riots sparked in large measure by a ban on chemical fertilizers promoted by Western transnational organizations like the World Bank and Western elite thought leaders like Michael Pollan.”
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“And now we’re seeing it in the Netherlands, where livestock farmers are rebelling against their government’s imposition of draconian restrictions on their industry’s nitrogen and ammonium emissions.”
Excellent here
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'The government needed to boost its revenues as foreign debt for big — and questionable — infrastructure projects soared, but instead Rajapaksa pushed through the largest tax cuts in Sri Lankan history'
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A compelling theory.
But is it true?
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Organic only madness isn't the only cause of the current financial crisis, but yeah, it is one of the main factors for the upcoming food shortage.
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By design
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