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Slouching Towards Fantasyland
American Thinker ^ | July 25, 2022 | Christopher Knight

Posted on 07/25/2022 2:39:31 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

Earlier this month, the people of Sri Lanka showed the world what real insurrection looks like. The reason: they’re starving. The cause: disastrous farming policies enforced by that country’s government, ostensibly to counter “climate change.” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ban on chemical fertilizer has brought biblical famine to the land, with food prices soaring 80% and more. Protestors swarmed Colombo, stormed the presidential palace and torched the prime minister’s residence.

If only the madness was confined to Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa wants to replace far superior synthetic fertilizer with manure and return to “all natural organic” farming. But he is far from alone. Throughout western Europe this summer, farmers have furiously protested similar fertilizer policies. Farmland is being pillaged, entire herds of livestock are being decimated, and not surprisingly, crop yields are being wiped out. Meanwhile in Canada the Trudeau government has announced that fertilizer use is to be slashed, in a move that is angering provincial leaders.

“Environmental”-minded progressives are eager to bring such enlightened farming to America. I cannot but be reminded of Ma Chalmers in Atlas Shrugged: she who damned American grain production with her theories about soybeans. Or worse: the “agrarian utopia” that the Khmer Rouge imposed upon the people of Cambodia in the 70s. That mad socialist experiment murdered two million people, mostly by starvation, and if anyone complained there was always torture and execution.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; electricvehicles; energy; srilanka; unicornfarts

1 posted on 07/25/2022 2:39:31 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Proof that Karl Marx was a chump, a fraud, a huckster and a con man.


2 posted on 07/25/2022 2:40:31 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: All

Do the rich taste like chicken?


3 posted on 07/25/2022 3:04:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Joe Biden has issued a national emergency over the shortage of cue cards.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Coming soon to Canada. Trudeau just levied a 30% reduction reg in fertilizer emissions. The farmers in Canada were already out showing support for the Dutch over the weekend (which is when Trudeau made his move).

Coming soon to the U.S.?

4 posted on 07/25/2022 3:05:17 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Good read, Ciaphas Cain. Thanks.
5 posted on 07/25/2022 3:05:58 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

And then does that not make is fully legal and right that American citizens demanded access to Congress on January 6?


6 posted on 07/25/2022 3:19:00 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: No name given

I am always split on this strategy of attacking the person and not their ideas, but Marx lived off his father in law his entire time married to his wife. He couldn’t bother to work and provide for his wife.


7 posted on 07/25/2022 3:20:16 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: LibertyWoman

The workers will be slandered by the media, then arrested and put up on charges like what happened to the truck protesters. Canada is now full on fascist.


8 posted on 07/25/2022 3:21:00 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: LibertyWoman
Coming soon to the U.S.?

Of course it is. It's a "climate emergency" after all. Biden just has to sign an executive order and he'll have us using cow manure. Or worse.

9 posted on 07/25/2022 3:24:11 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

It does kind of seem like we are reaching a point with climate change that we have made all the sacrifices that we can without causing too much harm to ourselves. The progressives and environmentalists are now having to justify some really debilitating sacrifices that will cause severe hardship for everyone except the elites. This is the point where backlash is imminent.


10 posted on 07/25/2022 4:38:25 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Looks like the Dutch, Irish, and other EU fools are going to try it, but I’m sure it will be different this time.


11 posted on 07/25/2022 4:40:52 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: RetiredTexasVet

White people are a lot less patient when they’re hungry; ask Nicholas II or Louis XVI.

This whole concept seems like something dreamed up by Pol Pot.


12 posted on 07/26/2022 3:56:42 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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