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Matthew Zeitlin
@MattZeitlin
They banned synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in Sri Lanka in 2021 as part of a crash green agriculture effort and then the economy crashed and the government was overthrown
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Dennis M. Hogan
@dennismhogan
Is there a modern precedent for putting an utterly batshit conspiracy theorist in charge of the entire public health infrastructure of a large country? Like anywhere in the world? x.com/acyn/status/19…
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David Watson 🥑
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@1chf140pts
Oh come on.... The ban of synthetic fertilizers was an effort to slow the drain of FX reserves caused by the huge energy sports bill, all dressed up as a move to "organic farming" Everyone in the country knows it was about dwindling reserves. Not that it mattered in the end...
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val314159
@val314159
i think exploding countries thru appointing insane ppl happens all the time but usually the country changes hands and calls itself something else so Survivors' Bias makes us forget.
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@atonal440
It was also a backhanded attempt to fix the foreign exchange deficit since there was an insane subsidy for fertilizer!
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HumanGPT
@nicknamemankcin
You got it wrong. They use green fertilizers because of the economical debt crisis, they don’t have foreign reserves dollar to import synthetic fertilizers.
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Alex Dimitrios
@alexspcm
RFK Jr.'s fingerprints are all over the Sri Lanka affair. He calls Vandana Shiva his role model.
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Space Commune
@SpaceCommune
In 2021 Sri Lanka banned chemical fertilizer overnight. By 2022 the economy collapsed, the president fled, and the country erupted. Learn from @foxggreen how Western NGOs + “rockstar” activists sold this green utopia with Energy/Empire: x.com/MattZeitlin/st…
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