Cuba’s strange path

Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community. The implications for so-called modern industrial countries in a world approaching peak oil couldn’t be more striking. To understand this, it is worth briefly tracing Cuba’s path since the Cuban revolution.

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