How Sri Lanka’s shift to organic farming left it in the manure
Ignoring its own advisers, the government banned agricultural chemicals. The result has been an economic catastrophe
Interesting how so many fashionable ideas are blowing up at the same time. MMT does cause inflation and no, politicians won’t raise taxes to stop it doing so. MMT does therefore not work as an economic policy.
Organic farming starves folks. Solar and wind power drives up, not down, energy prices.
Gosh, who would have thought it?
This reminds me of the greenies campaign against Borlaug using his system of increasing crop yields in Africa.
Blame wreckers and saboteurs; if that fails just blame White people….
Yes, but you’re discussing religious doctrines there. Oh ye of little faith.
Yes, but I bet it wasn’t real organic farming.
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‘Otto +1’
And another +2.
Poor old Sri Lanka. I have a number of friends who have visited and loved it. Seems that I have missed the window between warfare and chaos. Mismanagement and the grubby hand of Fascist China is a nasty combination.
I suspect the nation would have been better off remaining a colony. Sadly, that’s not even an option now. The UK used to produce a small but astonishingly competent group of administrators. Now we can’t even produce people capable of running a county council.
I agree with BiS; it’s all that old-time religion.
An obvious analogy would be the great slaughter of their own cattle by the Xhosa as recommended by the prophetess Greta Nongqawuse in the 19th century. Or the destruction of their own food supplies by the Jewish zealots of Jerusalem while besieged by the Roman Army in 70 AD.
People failing to think.
IF and only IF all human and animal manure was returned to the fields, organic farming will work – if not, then it is on a downward spiral
How South Africa’s shift to renewables and carbon taxes left it in the manure with the average electricity consumer experiencing at least two “load-sheds” a day.
Tim
Coverage of your ASI article elsewhere:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/21/sudden-shift-to-organic-farming-plunges-sri-lanka-into-worst-economic-crisis-since-1948/
Maybe you could do an article or two for DS
Congrats