The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens aftger they lost global support in the early 1990's.

This is short trailer is one of fifty-five films on tour with the WILD & SCENIC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL. Learn more about the film, the filmmaker and the film festival at... http://wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/...

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[tslc04]

if you are worried about rising food prices due to bio fuel. then you should look into becoming a vegetarian. eating meat is the most energy intensive thing in the world. 1 person on a meat diet can feet 20 on a vegetarian one. even in a small country like vietnam almost 3 millions tons of corn and soy is imported just for livestock feed.

[MrEnergyCzar]

Cuba survived Peak Oil by allocating land to the people to grow food locally. North Korea didn't survive Peak Oil, they've been starving.....

[p4rt1]

Now you are changing the topic, bravo!  So on the other side the US. citizens can choose between two political parties. Freedom of speach is screwed since 9/11. You guys torture people in illegal camps and attack other countries without any right. So where is the difference between the US and Cuba? So shut up about Cuba, the US is a bigger thread to the world than Cuba will ever be.

[USAHavana]

UR Another idiot, For 53 years, Cuba's totalitarian regime has made life hell for the population. But Castro also has spared no expense in running a clever international propaganda campaign. Regime survival has depended on East German-style repression covered over by a smiley face for international consumption. It has worked, and Cuban human-rights defenders have suffered their indignities with little or no moral support from the outside world.

[p4rt1]

Cuba helped other people to fight for their independence. Something the US is always fighting against. And most of the wars took place in the 60s and 70s!!! You have no idea what you are talking about, boy.

[USAHavana]

No wars? Try Angola, Ethiopia, El Salvador and the rest of Latin America. In short, you are an IDIOT.

[p4rt1]

Stop wasting your time. We all know how "baaaad" Castro and how "good" every US president is. Too sad that the Cubans haven't started any wars against other countries during the last decades. I feel sorry for you.

[johny Gnosis]

great video !!

[USAHavana]

Castro dupes so many morons, especially the eager little progressive minds, who suffer from narcisistic martyrdom and/or social repression. Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today.

[USAHavana]

Most of the oil is then sold for hard currency, bringing in cash. Cuba also charges Venezuela $30 per patient visit, meaning a $1,000 daily haul per doctor, but the doctors never see any of it. Pathetic how fools support SLAVERY,