Posted on 12/01/2019 9:38:36 AM PST by tcrlaf
CUBA is the most sustainably developed country in the world, according to a new report launched today. 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.
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dividing a nation’s “human development” score, obtained by looking at statistics on life expectancy, health and education,
Health? Yeah, Cuba thrives on medical tourism. Anyone with a serious disease goes to Cuba for treatment.
Education. Cuba claims 100% literacy—that’s how good their schools are. It is one reason why students from around the world go to Cuban universities and why Cuba is a world leader in science, math, engineering and the arts.
What a load of crap.
You’re right.
“I figured North Korea would have them beat.”
no doubt the Norks beat Cuba on the denominator part of the ratio, but their failure on the numerator part does them in ...
The less carbon footprint the better, then. Indian tribes in the Amazon Basin living in prehistoric conditions must be the most advanced civilization on the planet, therefore. Up is also down.
Since Cuba is so great then THE SQUAD, etc can move there!
Developed?
Except that the Party took the land back and Che shot the mule just for the fun of it.
Well, when you have nothing it is easy to sustain.
sustainably developed = backwards
Well, DUH!
It’s easy to have a low carbon footprint when the climate is warm enough that you don’t have to heat your house most of the year, and where cars are not available or very limited.
100%!!! i think there's a lil judge tampering going on here...
Putting “Cuba” and “Developed Nation” in the same sentence? That’s either incredibly daring or incredibly delusional. :P
Not really. There is certain charm to it but I wouldn’t want to live there. Far from worst place though.
<< The Sustainable Development Index (SDI), designed by anthropologist and author Dr Jason Hickel >>
From this article in the Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-far-left-has-an-idiotic-new-craze-reduce-economic-growth
Enter Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics, a man on a crusade to end “the tyranny of GDP.”
In an interview for BBC’s Newsnight show on Thursday, Hickel called for “degrowth.” Ignoring energy innovation in fracking, nuclear power, renewables, and battery-based power systems, Hickel claimed that Earth is running out of resources. Rich nations are apparently to blame because we “use three times our fair share of bio-capacity.”
That is like ‘alternatively-gifted’.
Meanwhile, Cuban citizens have to bring their own light bulbs and linens to the hospital.
I somehow agree that GDP-tied development indexes are flawed but ‘bio-capacity’ sounds even less appealing.
Partisan Media Shills update.
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