Preface. After seeing the film “The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil” in 2006, I thought about how those lessons might apply to California, which grows about a third of U.S. food. Much of what follows in the post below is based on the excellent Oxfam analysis of the complexities involved in Cuba and its food production reforms.
After reading the Pulitzer prize winning “Cuba: An American History (2021),” I learned that the main way Cuba coped with the fall of the Soviet Union and consequent lack of oil was to open up Cuba’s economy to development. Europeans built many hotels and vacationed there. Tourism became an even bigger industry than sugar. And that Cubans are even more wonderful and the U.S. more evil and responsible for their condition that I had known before. You can visit despite all their problems, they are keeping the lights on in the tourist districts according to friends who were there in December 2024.
Preface. This is a book review of Ramana’s “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.” A great overview that covers many topics, one of the best out there, and most recent. Also some of my kindle notes. But still, so much not covered, and this is such an important topic now that there are billions of dollars of Nuclear Cheerleaders convincing people that Nuclear Is The Answer. Before buying into the hoopla, read this book to be more informed about what is hype and what is realistic. Especially because most of the public, especially younger generations, have forgotten how dangerous they are. And if you’ve read my books, you know that electricity can’t replace diesel transportation, so all we are doing is creating toxic waste dumps for tens of thousands of future generations as oil declines to drips by 2100 or sooner.
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