Having handed its agricultural policy over to organic true believers, many of them involved in businesses that would stand to benefit from the fertilizer ban...
Special interests contribute, no doubt. But special interests weren’t at work in the Bolsheviks, the Soviets, Mao, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela or any other communist dictatorship. The ruling elite wanted to enrich themselves at the expense of the peasants and middle classes and cloaked themselves with “power to the people.” In Sri Lanka, the ruling elite was all too happy to enlist the green special interests to cement their power.