THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
ZR
Zondra Roy
Updated 21 October 2014
TRANSCRIPT
What is PEAK OIL?
Relations to Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Conclusion
- Lost 80% of export/import causing electricity blackouts
- 1970 - highest gas prices in history
- 2010 - consumption rate was at its MAX
- 3-4 hour waits for bus rides
- 3 Universities expanded to 50 Universities due to lack of resources to get to and from school
- 10 barrels of oil for food, 9 barrels of oil for cars,
7 barrels of oils for the home
- Lived on $2 U.S. a month during peak oil
- Loss of $750 million worth of supplies
- Caused mal-nutrition in children, anemia in
pregnant women, and underweight babies
Interesting Information
A Production of the Community Solution
May 14, 2006
- Known as the "special period" and was also the crash of the economy
Is the Film Accurate?
- Turned every piece of land into agricultural gardens
- Took 3-5 years
- Developed bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers
- Used animals for labour rather than tractors
- 80% of production was organix
Problems During Peak Oil
What was the Outcome?
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
''If your faced with a crisis the best solution is trial and error"
"They were trying to produce COOPERATION
and CARING about each other"
Yes. Why?
- M. King Hubbert Predicted the peak oil crisis
- Film explanations
- Presently talked about today
- Books written about the peak oil crisis
- Older film, making information less current
or accurate
- Language Barrier
- Focuses on local community-based organizations
- How Cuba dealt with the crisis
- How Cuba is a model for what is going to take place in the rest of the world
Themes of the Film
Film Weaknesses?
- ''The point in time when the global production of oil will reach its maximum rate, after which production will gradually decline.''
