The first government to fall after supporting the insanity of reducing crop production is Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa steps down on July 13. The announcement came after protesters stormed his residence and set the prime minister’s home on fire.
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky.
The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. If there were a shortage of, say, shoes, we could make do for months or even years. Something similar can be said for most commodities.
But food is different. When there is an interruption in the supply of food, fear sets in immediately. Look at what happens when a bad snow storm is forecast. Certain staples vanish from the stores.
And, if the resumption of the food supply is uncertain, the fear can become pronounced. After only nine missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food especially if your children are hungry.
Sri Lanka is experiencing this problem.
Thomas Lifson reports:
Sri Lanka foolishly signed on to the green initiative in farming, going organic and limiting the importation and use of chemical fertilizers. Food production, including tea, a vital export earner of foreign exchange, collapsed, and now the government is broke, people are hungry.
Just how practical is an approach that makes a country’s people go hungry? This is part and parcel of the Build Back Better agenda. The Democrats would have you believe that you are saving the planet when people die of starvation.
However, destroying one’s crop production is insane. Yet the leaders of Sri Lanka bought into this insanity.
The people are not happy.
How long before such protests spread to other parts of the world?