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Written by Lucas Leiroz, researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant.
Sri Lanka is collapsing. The economic crisis has led local citizens to take extreme measures, resorting to violence as a way of achieving changes in national politics. On July 9, protesters invaded and occupied several residences of politicians and official government offices, including the presidential palace and the home of the head of the parliament. Some of the invaded places were looted and destroyed with depredation and fire, forming a real scenario of civil conflict.
Consequently, the government entirely disintegrated. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned, as informed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who shortly afterwards also left his office, making the fall of the government absolute and irreversible. Rajapaksa has been fleeing his official residence since last Friday due to fear caused by the protesters. There is no reliable information about his current location.
A provisional government is being formed in order to operate a process of political transition. Information on how this process will take place is not yet accurate and certainly everything will depend heavily on the ability of the agents involved to garner popular support, considering the moment of strong tension and instability, when the local people seem to be willing to do anything to demand their rights.
Popular fury is comprehensible if the national scenario is analyzed in depth. The Sri Lankan government was unable to manage the situation of economic crisis that affected the country in recent months, reaching the extreme of virtually emptying its foreign currency reserves. The trigger for the crisis was the energy shortage as a consequence of the lack of resources for the importation of fuels. Inflation simply prevented the transit of people and goods through the country, leading the government to implement a radical measure banning private consumption of gasoline and diesel, allocating the fuel stock only to the state sectors. Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to take this type of measure since the 1970s – and, as can be seen, it was not a pleasant experience for the population.
However, the crisis is not limited to recent episodes. The absence of foreign resources is due to a series of imprudent decisions taken by the government since last year, among which the choice for a radical environmental policy stands out. Rajapaksa bet on the ecological agenda as a way to promote his personal political image and garner international support. For example, his 2019 election campaign was awarded as the “world’s first zero carbon campaign”. In his government, he strove to accelerate a project of “green and clean economy”, which motivated him to impose in 2020 a law banning the use of fertilizers and pesticides throughout the national territory.
His goal was to make Sri Lanka the first 100% organic farming nation in the world, which would undoubtedly please the Western pro-green agenda governments and multinational companies that invest in climate improvement projects. However, all he managed to do was generate widespread famine, chaos and financial collapse. In just six months, more than a third of the country’s arable land was completely unusable. Rice production fell by more than 20%, leading the government to spend about 450 million dollars on cereal imports to alleviate hunger, which also did not work well as rice reached an inflation of more than 50% due to the import costs.
In addition, the tea sector, which is the main product of the country’s exports, suffered losses of more than 425 million dollars. The government was then finally forced to distribute an extra package of more than 200 million to reimburse affected farmers, as well as suspending the law and resuming the use of chemicals on crops.
Undoubtedly, Rajapaksa was wrong in betting on making his country the “green paradise” desired by Western liberal democracies. Certainly, if more prudent measures had been taken earlier, the current chaos would have been avoided. If the government had only limited the use of chemical products to safe doses, instead of banning it completely, it would not have generated structural hunger and would not have had to spend so much to import food – which would have made it possible to preserve financial reserves to maintain stable supplies of fuel, avoiding the current crisis.
Rajapaksa was a distinguished political leader in many points and garnered international support for many of his initiatives, but his legacy shows how adhering to the radical environmentalism encouraged by the West can be a mistake with serious social consequences. While a small Asian country has its economy devastated and its government overthrown for adhering to organic agriculture and the zero-carbon project, European governments are currently softening their environmental laws due to the energy crisis resulting from the conflict in Ukraine, even promoting deforestation for resources extraction.
There is a big difference between what liberal democracies advocate in theory and what they actually practice. Rajapaksa tried to fully materialize the utopian discourses of Western environmentalism and the result was the collapse of his country.
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The JewWorld order is collapsing and General Winter will cause much wall wailing.
The EU is destined for violent protests that will overturn those who seek to plunder the world. Again.
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Lucas your analysis is flawed to varying degrees. Firstly this attempt at pigeon-holing with a lable (Western liberal democracies) so that it can be used as a term of smear or riddicule is utterly infantile.
I’m Western, I’m Liberal and I also believe in democracy but neither I or the hundreds of millions like me cause or wish nor are party to the implosion of societies.
You have swallowed the propaganda of the true wasters of humanity, the finger pointers of the Bankers, the Vast Media outlets and the Nazis of the world. Corruption and thievery organised by the powerful and wealthy on an industrial scale is neither democratic or liberal. The blaming of Sri Lankan woes on ecological polices only serves to mask the true reasons.
Sri Lanka has always been controlled by wealthy organisations outside of Sri Lanka, they had no issues with its resources being raped year in year out for foreign investors and companies. Next to nothing was reinvested in manufacteuring, engineering, technology, education, or social distrubution of wealth. Instead Sri Lanka was kept like so many under developed countries as a backward location run by corrupt politicians which the right-wing media and foreign companies invested in.
People would be utterly stunned if they realised that 99% of the worlds media is controlled by less than 100 people and 4 governments, 100 bastards all incredibly wealthy who through their vast media poison the minds of the dumb fucks who are too lazy to think for themselves and smear the minds of the rest directly or sub-conciously.
What hurts me or my family more some gay guy running down the street in a rainbow flag dressed as a woman or a bastard corporation cutting back on health, education, wages, clean water, justice, and equality. The using of the police and courts as a weapon and the exemption of crimes for the powerful and wealthy.
There is no shame in being liberal, it’s your duty as a human to be so, the shame is in falling for the Nazi and right wing finger pointers who deflect from the real reasons for turmoil.
Bullshit.
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Stop tourism with the plandemic, let them eat tea, let the US banks lend money at usurary rates and …enjoy your regime change.
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Just as the protesters stormed the government palace in Sri Lanka,
so shall the White American Conservative Patriots rise up and storm the Federal Reserve and all of DC. Take back their country from faggot LGBTQ anti-Russian, Zionist/Freemason scourge.
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I am with you, but please this needs to take place on BOTH sides of the planet.
USA, EU and RUSSIA and China , all of them are under different forms of jewish (controlled) dictatorship and tyranny. USA and EU are under jewish control, but Russia and China are too, communism is a jewish invented ideology which was violently forced upon the Russian christians in 1917 and on the Chinese people in late 1950’s. So why you think only one side should be freed resp. free itself, and the other should stay enslaved under the jewish death grip ? Do you hate the russian and chinese people so much, that you want them to stay slaves to these hooknosed demons, called Jews ?
Straight-up, lots of minimal thinkers around here, if one Appears ‘bad’ then the other must be ‘good’ when they’re actually ALL up Same creek.
White American conservatives are Jew and nigger worshippers. They will do not such thing.
More than anything else, all these third world people need (and for the sake of their endangered animals they share the land with) is birth control. And they need to start using it.
Making the entire nation of Sri Lanka organic in one swoop was overly ambitious. This should take up to ten years to do. Even changing one small farm to organic should be done in a transitionary period. Organic farming is radically different from the other kinds and the soils will take some time to adapt, to increase in humus and to become fertile. The know how and skills are different too. Organic foods tend to cost about a third more than non organic foods, in price and in the costs. This is because the yields are generally a third less. Organic composts, seaweeds, green manures, manure and mulches, these all take time to refertilise mineralise and add humus to the soil. Animals whether sacred cows, sheep or chickens are very helpful for farmers as they fertilise the soil from plain grass.
The author of the article is a social scientist, and it shows. He has no idea what he’s blabbering about organic farming.