ive been watching how its played out for a long time and its pretty much a complete shitshow now. There are some videos where people sneak off into the non-tourist areas and really see what living is like and its bleaker than its ever been. All the cuban post soviet successes have really ultimately succumbed to entropy at this point. Sadly a lot of the successes that were sociopolitical innovation have not really been well documented , things like different types of ownership and use structures of land or distribution, cooperative organization and subsidiarity etc… , things that were sort of clearing away cultural and legal impediments to production , distribution and consumption that would be perfectly applicable in 1st world democratic capitalist bureaucratic hellscapes as well. Look at how illegal sustainability is in places like california for example, or how housing is in incredible deficit purely from self imposed artificial scarcity. There was substantial institutional reform in cuba but it still ultimately couldnt fight physics , too little too late when losing primary inputs like energy. It wouldnt surprise me to see worst of all worlds for somewhere like the usa. no institutional reform to take the edge off

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4

sorry idk whats going on with this. i definitely input the link this time but it didn’t work with the post properly

Electricity at the personal level can be reduced tremendously, it is the big industrial systems that are producing things that are affected and so that loss of output is where the pain point would be.

I’ve gone whole years on a single 150 watt panel living rurally and still had all the entertainment that can come from a Laptop and cell phone. Ran basic devices from the battery . Not too big a deal for quality of life.

It’s illegal to implement solutions, smaller homes, gardens, composting toilets , groups of people living together densely in communitarian situations, chickens , rain water catchment, reed bed sewer systems , earthworks , self installed solar , etc… almost all those things are illegal in first world countries .

Until people get the collective will to change the law , sustainability wil be something done by outlaws whose lives occasionally get destroyed when the crackdowns happen.

I posted the wrong link with the title and reposted with the correct link

Shit I dont know what happened there . I must have posted a link I was looking at instead of the one with the title

hah , i did some girls college homework paper in like 20 minutes the other day then put it in AI and told it to rewrite it as a C student paper so she wouldn’t get in trouble. lol

what is PUG?