Sri Lanka’s Food Crisis Is Man-Made—and Demonstrates the Danger of Faux Environmentalism

At a 2021 UN climate conference, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gave a speech bragging about his country's move toward sustainable agriculture.

Less than a year later, thousands of Sri Lankans face starvation, and Rajapaksa is in exile in Singapore-all a result of his disastrous agricultural and environmental policies.