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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
michaelshellenberger.substack.com
The World Economic Forum and others promoted organics in Sri Lanka. “Given its education levels,” wrote economist Joseph Stiglitz for WEF in 2016, “Sri Lanka may be able to move directly into... high-productivity organic farming..."
"It was on the advice of Vandana Shiva that [Sri Lanka's President took the decision to ban chemical fertilizers..."
news18.com
news18.com
Vandana Shiva celebrated Sri Lanka's ban on chemical fertilizers and its move to "100% Organic" farming
Western environmentalists including Michael Pollan and Frances Moore Lappé, have promoted Vandana Shiva, architect of Sri Lanka's disaster, for decades.
Shiva is unrepentant. “The food crisis in Sri Lanka has deeper roots than a six-month ban on import of agri-chemicals... We need to look to Cuba for a full-fledged organic policy in the face of fuel and fertilizer supply stoppage due to sanctions.”
firstpost.com
firstpost.com
Shiva today says "Sri Lanka should have carefully planned this step."
But in June of 2021, Shiva struck a much more upbeat tone about its radical action: "Sri Lanka has already banned all chemicals and announced a transition to 100% Organic Sri Lanka."
But in June of 2021, Shiva struck a much more upbeat tone about its radical action: "Sri Lanka has already banned all chemicals and announced a transition to 100% Organic Sri Lanka."
Some leading Sri Lankan organic farming advocates were trained in the US and funded by multinational corporations including @MasterCard @Disney @JPMorgan @Accenture & @Google through "social entrepreneurship" philanthropies like @Ashoka
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