This story keeps rising from the dead as if it was a simplistic anti-technology action when in fact (as has already been mentioned in this thread) Sri Lanka's e

This story keeps rising from the dead as if it was a simplistic anti-technology action when in fact (as has already been mentioned in this thread) Sri Lanka's economy had collapsed to the point that it could not afford to pay for inputs to industrialised agriculture, including chemical fertilisers. I'd addressed many of the usual specious claims made on this in a thread from 2022, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419111> In particular, the situation was, as I'd put it there, "the driver was not 'let's de-grow the economy', but 'we can't afford what we had'". (The larger context of that particular thread was degrowth, on which I'd addressed some other points separately here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419768>.)