https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeM5emt ... WL&index=5
https://sites.psu.edu/sovas3a/2020/02/0 ... rch-finds/
Source: [Studio for Sustainability & Social Action (S3A,) Penn State University]
Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world, new research finds
The implication of Cuba's incredible success, is that the rest of the world is not as doomed as it may seem, even without speculative technological solutions, (as welcome as they are should they be sustainably developed.) Only not doomed if we choose to change our ways though, and radically restructure our societies. Cuba's government was researching applied permaculture and organic agriculture for years before the Soviet Union collapsed and the embargo was unjustly and cruelly tightened. They were able to apply this research to the majority of the economy within 3-5 years depending on the region. This shows that we as humans could genuinely solve much of, perhaps even most of the ecological crises in a very short period of time if we were motivated to. I sincerely hope we in the currently rich and powerful countries of the world are not so critically stupid that we court famine before trying.The socialist island outperforms advanced capitalist countries including Britain and the United States, which has subjected Cuba to a punitive six-decades-long economic blockade.
The Sustainable Development Index (SDI), designed by anthropologist and author Dr Jason Hickel, calculates its results by dividing a nation’s “human development” score, obtained by looking at statistics on life expectancy, health and education, by its “ecological overshoot,” the extent to which the per capita carbon footprint exceeds Earth’s natural limits.
Countries with strong human development and a lower environmental impact score highly, but countries with poorer life expectancies and literacy rates as well as those which exceed ecological limits are marked down.
Based on the most recent figures, from 2015, Cuba is top with a score of 0.859, while Venezuela is 12th and Argentina 18th.