What Power Cuts In Sri Lanka Have To Do With You
Sri Lanka is a canary in the coal mine, for the global collapse that’s yet to come. We have no buffer to print money and bullshit our way through problems, so they just hit us immediately. But the underlying problems are the same as yours. We’re just the canary in the literal coal mine. Hear us sing.
Our Problems
Right now, and I mean literally right now, we don’t have power. The country has hours of power cuts every day.
So I sit in the heat, listening to UPSes beep. We wait for the rain, to fill up the reservoirs again. For decades we stopped building renewable infrastructure, like we had for thousands of years. We protected and nurtured few of our own industries, integrating instead into global supply chains.
So now we have nothing.
Just ships full of oil, circling the port, waiting for dollar payments that we don’t have. Just dead investments in fossil fuels, poisoning our own air and flooding our own coastlines. Just the promise of ‘development’ turned into certain doom. This is life on the edge of Empire, where things have already fallen apart.
