I had not realized the crisis in Sri Lanka had been caused by the Green Agenda.
In fact, I doubted it, when I saw this video from the conservative Great Britain News.
So I googled. And I got this article from a site calling itself "Eco-Business."
Which, of course, means lies to support the Green Agenda. So, read it with an analytical mind.
It is hard to know how much Sri Lankan forest has been cut down as fuel shortages force people to use firewood to cook: inspectors have halted deforestation patrols because they cannot fill up their vehicles.A deep financial crisis has left Sri Lanka struggling to pay for oil and cooking gas imports for fuel and power generation, threatening to put further pressure on its forests, which cover 17 per cent of the country compared to nearly 40 per cent three decades ago.
“We’re very concerned … There’s a big market emerging with an increasing demand for firewood,” said Jagath Gunawardena, a Colombo-based environmental lawyer, lamenting that the gasoline shortages had disrupted his group’s regular forest patrols.
The fuel and power crunch has also highlighted patchy progress on goals to increase renewable energy use to 70 per cent from the current 20 per cent by 2030, which climate campaigners say could have helped alleviate the current crisis.
Duminda Dissanayake, cabinet minister, Sri Lanka Ministry of Irrigation Millions of people in the debt-burdened Indian Ocean island nation have been grappling with long queues to buy gasoline and cooking gas, and power cuts of up to 13 hours a day that have stoked growing social unrest.
Long before the crisis struck, the sun-drenched country had laid out plans to ramp up clean energy use, and boost production to make it more accessible and affordable.“Renewable energy is the most cost-effective source with Sri Lanka having ample sunlight and wind,” Duminda Dissanayake, junior minister for solar, wind and hydro power generation projects development told reporters last month.He said Sri Lanka aims to become carbon neutral and generate 100 per cent of its power through renewable energy by 2050.
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