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Sri Lanka recently chose to ban fertilizers made from fossil fuel. Anyone who’s not an idiot could have predicted the results.
Wordpress ^ | July 21, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 07/22/2022 9:38:29 AM PDT by grundle

Sri Lanka recently chose to ban fertilizers made from fossil fuel. Anyone who’s not an idiot could have predicted the results.

Pretty much every country that participates in the modern, global economy is far better off today than in the recent past. More people have been lifted out of third world poverty in the past 70 years than in the all of the thousands of previous years combined. The only countries that remain in third world poverty are the luddites who choose to reject the modern world. I support using modern technology to give a first world standard of living to every person on earth. Nuclear power, desalination, modern agriculture, thermal depolymerization for recycling all of our trash.

Sri Lanka recently chose to ban fertilizers made from fossil fuel. Anyone who’s not an idiot could have predicted the results.

People make choices. Choices have consequences.

Third wold poverty is a choice. Here’s one real world example:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/fertiliser-ban-decimates-sri-lankan-crops-government-popularity-ebbs-2022-03-03/

Fertiliser ban decimates Sri Lankan crops as government popularity ebbs

March 3, 2022

“Last year, we got 60 bags from these two acres. But this time it was just 10,” he added.

The dramatic fall in yields follows a decision last April by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ban all chemical fertilisers in Sri Lanka


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agriculture; asia; fertilizer; food; srilanka
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1 posted on 07/22/2022 9:38:29 AM PDT by grundle
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2 posted on 07/22/2022 9:43:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Not many years from now, people will spend most of their time looking/obtaining food.


3 posted on 07/22/2022 9:45:37 AM PDT by blam
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Well, looking anyway.


4 posted on 07/22/2022 9:48:06 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: grundle

> Sri Lanka recently chose to ban fertilizers made from fossil fuel. <

I’d like to know why. Sure, on the surface it looks like they simply made a green decision, albeit a bad one. But I bet it goes deeper than that.

Who bribed them to make Sri Lanka a test case? I suppose we’ll never know. But those guys couldn’t have made the decision on their own. There’d be no up-side in it.


5 posted on 07/22/2022 9:53:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Yep, times are getting tough. I had to walk almost 100 yards to pick a bucket of tomatoes this am and 5 yards farther to dig potatoes for lunch. Earlier I tripped over 3 chickens to go gather eggs for breakfast.


6 posted on 07/22/2022 9:55:08 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: grundle

President Rajapaksa points to the acres of chemically dead soil, the grim gauntlets of tilled but barren farmlands then says “I Did That!”


7 posted on 07/22/2022 9:55:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: MtnClimber

Most dont realize it, but the USA is headed toward Sri Lanka.


8 posted on 07/22/2022 10:01:59 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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Sri Lanka has never been the same since Arthur C. Clarke died.


9 posted on 07/22/2022 10:05:15 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: grundle

Latest pandemic: The Stupid Government Virus is spreading all over the world.


10 posted on 07/22/2022 10:07:20 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Aah - reality gets its revenge.

A great schadenfreude moment.


11 posted on 07/22/2022 10:10:12 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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There is a Global shortage of Fertilizer. Expect this to lead to a Global Famine.


12 posted on 07/22/2022 10:14:39 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: blam

The ruling class wants to see us living in caves and wearing furs, but they will have to be fake furs because you won’t be allowed to harvest them from animals because that will just be mean.


15 posted on 07/22/2022 10:25:50 AM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: grundle
Sri Lanka recently chose to ban fertilizers made from fossil fuel. Anyone who’s not an idiot could have predicted the results.

First One Back To The Jungle Wins the pack of Jackals as a personal guard!

16 posted on 07/22/2022 10:25:51 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: ping jockey
Or a Tomahawk missile or 2000 pounder right through his roof.

There's more of them that need to be silenced than just Klaus though. We must all learn who they are and where they are usually located. They will all have to be dealt with, including the ones that inhabit the US and Canadian Govts.

17 posted on 07/22/2022 10:31:51 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: Leaning Right

Things like this don’t just happen without money changing hands.


18 posted on 07/22/2022 10:32:18 AM PDT by Romulus
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“ Anyone who’s not an idiot could have predicted the results.”

Libtards are still trying to understand inflation 🤪


19 posted on 07/22/2022 10:32:27 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: MtnClimber

The Haber Bosch process kept billions from starving to death.
They have tried to get this to work with solar and wind.
It doesn’t work.

It takes a tremendous amount of energy to break the N2 triple bond.
This is why the reverse makes for such a powerful explosive.


20 posted on 07/22/2022 10:51:30 AM PDT by Zathras
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