Sourced of - https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/sri-lankas-green-new-deal-brings On the latest episode of the All In podcast released last Thursday, tech billionaire and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, who is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian and American citizen, discussed the collapse of Sri Lanka with PayPal Mafia member and co-host, David Sacks. Palihapitiya told Sacks, “Somewhere along the way the leadership of Sri Lanka decided that they were woke and so they enforced every farmer to go organic.” “The problem with going organic and organic fertilizer was all the small farms shut down, all of the large farms had 20 to 30 percent crop yield reductions, and the prices of food went crazy.” “What they found as they tried to go woke,” he said, “they went broke.” Sri Lanka, a small island nation in South East Asia, has completely collapsed after its president’s “green” policies have bankrupted the nation that is no longer able to pay for food, fuel, or medicine. In 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pledged to ban the importation of chemical fertilizers on the campaign trail. "I am honored that my Presidential campaign has been recognized as world’s first carbon neutral election campaign," Mr. Rajapaksa tweeted on July 20, 2020, "certified by @UN Framework Convention on Climate Change." On April 27, 2021, Mr. Rajapaksa followed through on his campaign promise to ban chemical fertilizers and pesticides when he ordered the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic, prompting a surge in food prices, and what has now turned into a catastrophe.