The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Submitted by jd925 on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 03:22
This is a great video... we can learn a lot from Cuba....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-66172489666918336
For those interested in sustainable living and ways to handle the transition in hard times, this is a must see.. I think it gives us a lot of hope....
(Check out what system worked best in terms of agriculture yield in Cuba: private property vs co-op vs state run?)
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_we_ as individuals, at
_we_ as individuals, at least some of us, could stand to learn something from individual _cubans_, who are proving remarkably resilient.
But _we_ as a political society should absolutely, positively not learn anything at all from Cuba.
The place is an abject sh09hole. The main foreign currency earner by now is likely el cheapo tourism and prostitution, as people are so abjectly destitute they'll do anything for a buck.
there have been some AMAZING stories come out of cuba.
their amazing transportation system. ain't fancy but gets the job done.
INCREDIBLE use of every space imaginable for gardens.
their doctors and nurses DONATING their services to places that have just had a natural disaster. (which bush turned down after katrina)
The talk about "sustainability" & "peak oil" mean one thing...
that this is a UN propaganda piece.
NO THANKS!
It seems you have not
It seems you have not watched this video. This says nothing about the UN or world government. It actually shows how the people overcame their situation in spite of the government (and also how effective the system of private property works better than a state controlled system).
Sustainable living fits well with the Jeffersonian libertarian ideal and this just shows how successful an agrarian based society based on free markets can be. This shows how Cuba was able to become independent from oil and how it helped improve the society.
Whether you believe in peak oil or not, our economy seems like it will be the worst since the Great Depression. If that is the case, this video is great for survival lessons as well as sustainable living. Get ready for urban farms in the US... because the non-producing and service centered economy cannot last.
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You made a false assumption jd-
I DID watch the video, and I was totally unimpressed with it as a source of "survival lessons."
If you want to give people GOOD information about survival, send them to:
http://www.endtimesreport.com/
Watching a video about UN-imported "experts" telling the locals to plant gardens in a vacant lot is not my idea of "sustainable" survival!
Abject poverty isn't a solution.
Cuba is an economic basket case, because their dictator penalizes productive effort. We have nothing to learn from Cuba.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel
There are some ...
There are some valuable lessons which I believe can be learned from the cuban people. To me it seems that their success lies in their ability to feed themselves locally with minimal toxic inputs in spite of the political system they live under. They had to look to their food for both nutrition and medicine. True, they do live in poverty, and a free market would enrich them in many other ways. But, they have to survive within the political system they live under. The nutritional quality of their produce is probably higher than what a US citizen eats today (and without toxic pesticides). I'm not sure if they produce enough meat or dairy for protein though. I haven't seen any information on this yet.
The other valuable lesson, as the title suggests, is the ability of their people to pull together to solve their own problems.
Most of the examples America will need in the future will not be wrapped in a pure libertarian, austrian economic, free market world view. We will have to filter out the political propaganda under the terms of Globalism, Environmentalism, and Sustainability to find the lessons we can use. Not everyone is aware of the big picture.
Although, I have to admit that I do kind of get annoyed sometimes with the political lefts' praise of the socialistic policies of Cuba.