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The BBC had a segment on Sri Lanka's crisis yesterday that managed never to mention this. Bizarre.

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Jul 10, 2022

A food, energy, and financial crisis has brought down Sri Lanka's government. But the underlying cause is the fact that the nation's political leaders had fallen under the spell of green elites peddling “ESG” and banning modern fertilizers. michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-dogma-

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8:45 AM · Jul 10, 2022

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The BBC are bizarre.

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… but not!

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It would upset the bbc net zero poverty inducing narrative

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That's nothing try finding anything about the Dutch farmers fighting the EU's bizarre nitrogen policy...

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It defaulted. Nothing to do with organic food.

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The modern delusion is that if the policy is noble enough, it can disregard reality.

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One of several causes.

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It might be because it isn't the full truth.

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is cherry picking information and playing to his audience. It pains me to see him go this way because I thought he was an independent thinker.

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Same thing in the US. MSNBC and CNN only mention corruption and mismanagement. Nothing on their devastating fertilizer and esg mandates...

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Possibly because the BBC, and Europe in general, has fallen under the spell of green elites, and are just now starting to figure it out. Germany shut down extracting natural gas & shut down nuclear power plants due to green elites. How is that serving them now?