theluckycountry wrote:ralfy wrote:Related:
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeM5emtaVC0
Those masses were already poor, plus they had been living under a total dictatorship for so long they simply did what they were told. I don't think these 'cases' have much to offer the Western World with it's entitlement ( I certainly have it ) mindset, and unwillingness to pull together in crises.
PeakOilers' have been forever looking for the "solution" to the collapse of western civilization due to oil depletion, and the masses while they are not stupid, they are ignorant, and they know hard times are ahead. When Elon Musk started saying his cars were zero carbon and could let them tool off into the future regardless of oil prices they took the marketing hook line and sinker. Shallow thinkers, ignorant, they were concerned only with their own pleasures. Who cares if children slaving in mines are dying by the droves in Africa to extract the Cobalt for their batteries, They turn a blind eye and demand their Tesla.
You get a crisis in the west and you have as many looters show up as people who want to help. The recent flood in New Zealand was a classic case. The assorted NZ gangs showed up and started taking anything that wasn't nailed down, the Minister though took a strong stance against them and told them to "Pull their heads in" WoW! How dare he use such confronting words. The regions effected had to form their own militias and since most of the guns there are in criminal hands...Ahhh, a soft hearted Woman in control, no need to get rough, just drive around in circles and scare the hardened gang members that way.Police are committed to being visible around the community, as long-standing gang tensions spark firearms incidents in flood-ravaged Hawke's Bay, says Police Eastern District commander Jeanette Park
https://cdn.hbapp.co.nz/news/news/video ... hawkes-bay
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politi ... hawkes-bay
If various online sources are right, I think the purpose of that is to help countries that try to copy the U.S. but are as poor as Cuba, like the Philippines.
The results are startling: in most indicators Cuba is doing better than the Philippines in terms of health care, housing, poverty alleviation, low infant mortality, etc., and the Philippines is the main model of U.S. neoliberalism in Asia.
This is also helpful because if not only peak oilers but climatologists and realists are right, then eventually the industrialized West will become like the Philippines, and then worse.