The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
 

Quick search didn't turn this up, but guessing it's a repost

SHTF 20 years ago in cuba. Worthwhile watch:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...00774361459528

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half � and food by 80 percent � people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis � the massive reduction of fossil fuels � is an example of options and hope AlchemyHouse Productions Inc

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hahahahahahahahahahaaaa russian drilling off the east coast of Cuba in 2008 found a 20+ billion barrel super field of abiotic oil[bigger than Prudhoe]; just to the west of the Haiti ""quake"" location. This is more than a thousand barrels for every Cuban. The oil industry has great fears that there might be horriblly large amounts there.

Read about it here;posted on the 2nd of Febuary so it might be off the front page
321energy.com


TPTB should never never never allowed a very well trained nationalistic GEOLOGIST[Putin]to get in control of Russia. A godsent for us little people as he is screwing big time with their "peak oil" , "global warming", carbon credit etc.etc. scams

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I hear you Hoot. Makes you wonder what they might find if they started drilling off the Florida Keys, or any of the florida coastline, for that matter.

They do talk some of the discoveries off the Cuban coast in the movie. Remember that Prudhoe was little more than a wart on the rump of US decline.

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I really enjoyed the film. Local organic urban gardening = fresher, cleaner healthier food, better air, and gardening is a happy activity, for me, at least. The wife only likes the picking and cooking part, but she is a good cook. Watching the little plants grow, planning how to get a lot of food from a small area... it is all fun for me and very relaxing.

And with hens in the home food co-op the garden waste, buggy cabbage leaves etc, become hen feed which becomes fertilizer and eggs. win-win. They get so excited when you bring them outer cabbage leaves with worms... they know, somehow, when meat is on the menu, and sing the happy chicken song.

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Cuba growing 80% organic. Who says organic food is only for the rich? The health and demographic stats were interesting. Roughly equal lifespan, despite an unimaginable gulf in medical spending per capita. Of course, I have to assume the numbers are fudged, but I believe the basic thrust of what was presented there. I suppose the bottom line is that people will find a way to adapt when faced with adversity, and Cuba found some ways that really work.

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One more thing as I reflect on the movie. What strikes me as interesting, is the arrangements they made for the small farm allotments. The land is state-owned, but the people are given small allotments of land to grow food privately for profit. The only requirement is that they have to grow food, or the land will be given to someone who will. The privately run allotments are most productive, with cooperatives coming in second and the big state run farms are, of course, least productive per acre. In the US, clearly our industrial/banking/subsidy model of ag is centralized and inefficient, despite being private ownership for profit. Interesting food for thought.