Sri Lanka’s Green Pres Gotabaya Gotta Go

Now we’re told Sri Lanka’s Green New Deal & whole hog transition to organic farming was a “human disaster” so bad the country’s president not named John Kerry needed to high-tail it overseas.

The WSJ op ed put it this way: “An ill-advised national experiment in organic farming yielded starvation poverty & political chaos.” The chaos includes a Jan. 6-like storming of the presidential palace occupied by Pres. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former-US citizen, whose “imperious decision to impose organic farming on the entire country – which led to widespread hunger after the agricultural economy collapsed.”

The opinion piece sarcastically asks, “Will this environmental visionary be offered refuge at Berkeley? At the headquarters of the Sierra Club? Or, even by the Biden administration?” While Mr. Rajapaska is also being accused of “war crimes,” the WSJ concludes, “the truth is, Mr. Rajapaksa was driven from office in part because he was an overzealous green warrior, who imposed on his countrymen a policy that the American environmental left holds sacred.”

Davd Soul