[Biden’s Green new deal] Sri Lanka has an almost perfect ESG score of 98%
(michaelshellenberger.substack.com)
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It's too late. All the nations pursuing compliance with the Paris Accord and high ESG scores are going to suffer the same fate.
In a way normies need and deserve this to happen to show how stupid the climate alarmists are.
China and Russia love the western ESG histrionics. They will get cheap oil+gas+coal that western people were previously getting.
Every time we cut back our CO2 China opens 5 new coal fire power plants.
China has seen how a cultural revolution hysteria can destroy a country so are immunized against this bullshit
And then our politicians are investing in foreign enery companies and making huge profits off of our demise.
The question is, are they ACTUALLY stupid enough to think the Chinese will respect their "property rights" once the US is no longer a hegemonic power?
The politicians don't care because they're just the pets of Wall St. bankers, and need their campaign contributions and insider trading information.
The Wall St. bankers have long figured out that they can still make money on a decline, whether the decline is an individual business or an entire economy. Plus, since they're globalists, they'll just move onto another area once the West is ruined.
The problem is that it's easy to shove Sri Lanka off a cliff.
But for Western countries, there is a lot of prosperity that they will be able to destroy before people get hungry and are forced to revolt.
I think you underestimate how much damage these kind of policies can cause. Venezuela and Zimbabwe both went from prosperous net producing nations to shitholes in just over a decade.
Not at all! I'm fully aware that they can completely wreck the country. Only thing I wonder about if it was indeed this that caused this country to be wrecked. It just sounds too good to be true.
Right, but that was not environmentalism.
Links included in the above text
https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/16/a-rush-to-farm-organically-has-plunged-sri-lankas-economy-into-crisis
https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-seeks-rice-bailout-from-china-after-fertilizer-ban-89819/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/sri-lanka-organic-farming-fertilizer.html
Even the NYT calls environmentalism bullshit bullshit "Then came Sri Lanka’s sudden, and disastrous, turn toward organic farming"