Highlight Cuba's Environmental Achievements in Science Marches on April 22, and April 29, 2017

There will be Science and Sustainability marches in Washington DC and various cities around the world on Earth Day, April 22 https://www.marchforscience.com/ and on April 29, 1017 https://peoplesclimate.org/.  We hope that some of you will participate and use this opportunity to highlight the achievements that Cuba has achieved in this area.  Please see the information that follows from a flyer that we distributed at the NYC Climate march on 9/21/14 and that you may modify as appropriate.  We also had a beautiful banner proclaiming: 

"Change U.S. Climate Toward Cuba!"

Sustainability in Cuba

According to the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet report in 2006 Cuba was the only country in the world to have achieved sustainable development(measured as the improvement of the quality of human life while living within the capacity of its ecosystem).

Cuba challenges the unsustainable pattern that presently dominates the world. Its models of sustainable development — especially in areas of food and health — are being replicated throughout Latin America. Cuba also leads the world in hurricane planning and as an island nation is acutely aware and already researching climate change vulnerability of coastal zones.

The U.S. has maintained an economic blockade of Cuba since revolutionary forces led by Fidel Castro successfully ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and turned the country away from capitalism. The Cuban people have withstood five decades of hostility from the United States.

Cuba's best form of resistance has not just been the assertion of national sovereignty, but also the creation of an alternative model of development that places ecology and humanity at its core. It has become a world leader in ecological, organic and urban agriculture.

Go see for yourself. Demand a lifting of the economic blockade and travel ban (which is still in place) imposed by the U.S. government.

For more information, go to www.NNOC.info  

National Network on Cuba

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