biden advisor sneers at fertilizer shortages, price jumps, claims farmers need to go organic. Wait...that's nuts

Samantha Power was Obama's representative to the U.N.  She's also totally crazy.  Think that's hyperbole?  Read on.

Russia was a major world exporter of fertilizer.  But after bidenfail imposed economic sanctions on Russia--including forbidding U.S. oil companies from buying Russian oil--Russia stopped exporting fertilizer.

So now world demand for the stuff exceeds supply.  Which means...wait, ask your Dem/Liberal friends what that always means.  Really.  We'll wait.

It means fertilizer prices are skyrocketing, obeying the laws of "supply and demand."  But notice how cunningly Power explains the world shortage:
    "Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer.  And even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia."

Not "After the U.S. imposed sanctions, Russia retaliated by cutting exports," but simply "because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer."  It's like "Everyone is mystified that suddenly there's not enough of the stuff!  Experts are baffled!"

Power continues:  "As a result, we're working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost, and this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyways, so...never let a crisis go to waste."

“Never let a crisis go to waste.”  In other words, the fertilizer shortage--triggered by her boss's sanctions on Russia--offer a chance to FORCE American farmers to "transition" to "natural solutions."

Wow, that sounds so faaaabulous, eh?  How does it work?

Turns out we don't have to speculate.  We have a recent example of just how fast "going all natural" can collapse an economy and starve its people. Just a year ago Sri Lanka tried it, and the results were...disaster.

An article in the State Department magazine "Foreign Policy" from March of this year explains:
IN SRI LANKA, ORGANIC FARMING WENT CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG --A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery 

In his 2019 election campaign the future president of Sri Lanka promised to "transition the country’s farmers" to organic agriculture over a period of 10 years.  Just as U.S. politicians, neither he nor anyone in his regime asked farmers what they thought was likely to happen if they did that.

Last April his government banned the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, leaving the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic.

So how’d it go?

The result was brutal and swift.  Though "experts" claimed organic methods can produce yields comparable to modern farming, Sri Lanka's rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months.  Though the country had been growing enough rice for domestic needs for years, it was suddenly forced to import $450 million worth of rice.

The price of this staple of the national diet jumped 50 percent.  A country that had been able to feed itself was suddenly unable, thanks to organic farming.

The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.

Losing much of the tea crop that it formerly exported, Sri Lanka now lost its main source of foreign income. So where did the government get the funds to pay $450 million for the imported rice needed to prevent starvation?

Without income that proved to be a problem. The country’s currency collapsed.

Faced with angry protests, soaring inflation, and the collapse of its currency, the government finally suspended the policy for several key crops—including tea but not rice.

The clueless government backdown is the good news.  The bad news is how much human suffering that policy brought on in such a short time.

Prior to covid Sri Lanka had proudly achieved middle-income status.  But thanks to the fiasco, half a million people have sunk back into poverty. Soaring inflation and a rapidly depreciating currency have forced Sri Lankans to cut down on food and fuel purchases as prices surge.

Unbiased experts agree that organic methods produce less food per acre.  For farmers willing to take lower crop yields in exchange for being able to get a high price for their products, more power to them if the math works.

But while lower crop yields on a small fraction of farmland are no big deal, lower crop yields on ALL farmland set the stage for mass food shortages.

Replacing “artificial” fertilizers with manure nationwide guarantees a huge drop in production.  For one thing there aren’t enough livestock to produce enough manure. And by coincidence the same people agitating to ban artificial fertilizers are also the ones demanding that Americans stop eating meat.  Cutting meat production means even less manure.

Thanks to political ideologues demanding 100% organic farming, Sri Lanka plunged its country into food shortages, poverty, and economic collapse in barely six months. That debacle is a reminder of just how quickly politicians can ruin an economy by ordering dumb policies.

Given the opportunity to fully implement their green agenda, Samantha Power and the members of her crazy party would happily inflict widescale poverty on the US, as surely and swiftly as happened in Sri Lanka. 

Source: Buck Throckmorton at Ace of Spades