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Cuba and why the end of oil is not the end of the world
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High Fidelity
What the West's only communist nation has done right.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba lost $4 billion to $6 billion in annual support, including food, farming equipment, pesticides, and petroleum. Facing severe shortages, the country had to rapidly convert its fields to food crops; since there was no money for chemical inputs, farmers learned organic methods instead.
It was hard for several years. Food was scarce, and public sentiment turned against Castro. He called it the Special Period in Time of Peace, which basically meant suffering wartime scarcities without war. But by the late '90s, the system was up and running. In 1999, the Grupode Agricultura Organica, the organic farming association that spearheaded the conversion, won an important international honor -- the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "alternative Nobel."
10 year turn around. And that was with a drastic cut off. If they can convert to a mostly oil free economy in 10 years with that cut off, why in hell do people think it'll be the end of the world when the US has a slow decline of oil?
High Fidelity
What the West's only communist nation has done right.
....
After the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba lost $4 billion to $6 billion in annual support, including food, farming equipment, pesticides, and petroleum. Facing severe shortages, the country had to rapidly convert its fields to food crops; since there was no money for chemical inputs, farmers learned organic methods instead.
It was hard for several years. Food was scarce, and public sentiment turned against Castro. He called it the Special Period in Time of Peace, which basically meant suffering wartime scarcities without war. But by the late '90s, the system was up and running. In 1999, the Grupode Agricultura Organica, the organic farming association that spearheaded the conversion, won an important international honor -- the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "alternative Nobel."
10 year turn around. And that was with a drastic cut off. If they can convert to a mostly oil free economy in 10 years with that cut off, why in hell do people think it'll be the end of the world when the US has a slow decline of oil?
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