Learning from Cuba's Response to Peak Oil


Peak Moment #27: Megan Quinn of The Community Solution discusses her visit to Cuba, and the movie "The Power of Community". This young woman sees Peak Oil as an opportunity to create the communities we want, but notes that we must reduce our consumption despite environmentalists' assurances that biofuels will save us.







Channel: People
Uploaded: September 26, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Author: peakmoment

Length: 00:27:36
Rating: 4.43
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FutureCollapse (November 26, 2008 at 10:30 pm)
The abusive control culture would rather commit suicide via global thermonuclear war than live like Cuba.
peakmoment (November 23, 2008 at 6:34 am)
This video wasn't about Cuba's political system, but how they responded when the oil imports suddenly stopped, as seen in the documentary "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil." If that happened here in the U.S., would we adapt as quickly as Cuba, or as well?
IndependantCuban (November 23, 2008 at 1:53 am)
In Cuba you have no freedom! The reason there are farms on every plot of land is because people are hungry. The reason they are conserving energy is because the government shuts the electricity is cut off every night. The socialist government is still there! I believe in learning from what they have done due to necessity. Necessity is the mother of invention. I would not celebrate the 45 years that my family has been separated or the tyrannical grip that binds Cuba. We must free Cuba! Cubalibre
truthseeker83 (November 22, 2008 at 12:45 am)
this is some "deep ecology" stuff.

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