World Wildlife Fund Living Planet report (2006) shows that Cuba is the only country developing without damaging the ecosystem
While the rest of the world is busy destroying the ecosystem, a report published by the World Wildlife Fund claims that the only country in the world with "sustainable development" is Cuba.
WWF includes in its report a graph which shows two features: the human development index (established by the United Nations) and the so-called "ecological footprint" which shows the per person energy and resources consumed in each country. Only Cuba has 'passed' in both arenas, which is enough to be designated a country that "meets the minimum sensitivity criteria". link for the full report: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/living_planet_report.pdf
Cuba ranks 50th on the HDI and outperforms its predicted ranking on the basis of GDP by 43 places!
see http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/pdfs/report/HDR06-complete.pdf
The study's authors credit the high level of literacy, long life expectancy and low consumption of energy for this success.
This independent finding contrasts with the lies about Cuba's environment in the report of the Commisison for Free Cuba (sic) produced by the non-Kyoto signing Petroleum oligarchy that runs the USA.
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