Cuba's Environmental Nightmare

The environmental circle jerk meeting in Bali drew to a close and they settled on some asinine agreement or another. I wonder why they didn't mention anything about this major problem:

HAVANA - For six miles, the Luyano River wends past a panorama of Havana - residences, businesses, industry - before it spills into Havana Bay, one of the busiest but most polluted ports on the Caribbean.

The Luyano exerts a substantial influence on Havana's environment as the largest of three rivers feeding the capital's bay.

Now, after a decade of studies, the watershed's dirtiest river is receiving its first wastewater-treatment plant, funded with $4 million from international partners and $20 million from Cuba's government, according to the international financing body Global Environment Facility.

But wait, I thought Castro's Cuba was like eden. I mean, leftists are adamant that they have an excellent health care system and education system. Evidently, Marxian theory doesn't help when dealing with real life situations like sewage treatment for residents.

Sewage isn't the only problem, it seems their capacity to handle garbage and more importantly hazardous waste is at crisis levels. I couldn't find much on the hazardous waste end, but I suspect they are disposing of that type of waste in either landfills or in the ocean which is a direct threat to the US.

So the next time some irritating liberal says something about US environmental policies, retort by saying that almost every significant environmental law was signed by a Republican President and that the US has the most strict environmental standard of any nation on earth. You may also want to point out that Bill Clinton refused to reauthorize the law that funds Superfund. Even though he talked a good game on environmental issue, he was just giving lip service as this shows.