And you thought The New York Times suggestion to put peas in your guacamole was nauseating:
The embargo and socialism helped protect Cuba's environment. Now, "the tsunami is coming" http://t.co/rnJYUoEZ4x pic.twitter.com/0eX1Ez6Z9G
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) July 1, 2015
Capitalism will spoil the socialist Cuban paradise!
As relations between the United States and Cuba have warmed — the countries announced on Wednesday that their embassies in Havana and Washington would reopen by July 20 for the first time in more than 50 years — and as the renewal of trade seems more of a possibility, the Cuban government faces pivotal choices.
The country is in desperate need of the economic benefits that a lifting of the embargo would almost certainly bring. But the ban, combined with Cuba’s brand of controlled socialism, has also been protective, limiting development and tourism that in other countries, including many of Cuba’s Caribbean neighbors, have eroded beaches, destroyed forests, polluted rivers, damaged coral reefs and wreaked other forms of environmental havoc.
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Despite modest economic advances in the last 15 years, much in Cuba can seem frozen in time, crumbling Havana buildings and old Chevys and Ladas serving as markers of how far the country has been left behind. But that has also meant that much of Cuba’s more than 3,500 miles of coastline has remained undeveloped.
https://twitter.com/VictoriaSC91/status/616345607939067904
Why, the kind the Times is known for, of course!
@NYTScience @instapundit then all they had to worry about were random government storm troopers shooting them in the head
— Rani ~ Science Skeptic ? (@MilitaryRosary) July 1, 2015
Well, I guess the only pollution were the dead bodies floating in the ocean fleeing Castro's brutal dictatorship… https://t.co/pR7Y56tApF
— Shane (@Sarge_87) July 1, 2015
Thoooooooose were the daaaaaays.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/616336519658360832
Shorter NYT: the abject poverty was worth it! https://t.co/UBoiRRC0kb
— Diworsity (@Diworsity) July 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/616337587758759936
@NYTScience Poverty and suffering are GREAT NEWS for the environment. NYT Science putting the "mental" back in environmentalist I see?
— Bert Difig (@BertDifig1) July 1, 2015
@NYTScience And the Soviet Union was a frickin ecological paradise, right?
— Pacific Standard Phil (@SinCityFC) July 1, 2015
Way to take an oppressive dictatorship and make lemonade. https://t.co/55M7nDoyHG
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) July 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/616337439091613696
@KevinNR @NYTScience 50 year old cars are really eco friendly.
— NathanInSoCal (@NATHANINSOCAL) July 1, 2015
"Cubans live in desperate poverty, and that's great for the environment!"
Times will become Salon within 5 years. https://t.co/BoZdDLSPPv
— IWantNothingHat (@Popehat) July 1, 2015
Shorter: Keeping 99% of the country in poverty is good because environment. https://t.co/miugQoZuEl
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/616336877877112832
Socialism has done wonders for the Aral Sea and Peking's air quality! https://t.co/W6AycJqQAa
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) July 1, 2015
Does @NYTScience know anything about the environmental record of communist countries? Hint-it isn't pretty.
— Slo-Rion (@Brawnychicken) July 1, 2015
Classic case of "the seen and the unseen." Times sees pristine environment. Doesn't see poverty and oppression. https://t.co/EXPiqwqlRh
— Sean Hackbarth (@seanhackbarth) July 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/HardAspie/status/616344006629330948
The New York Times sees the beauty. Why can’t we?
https://twitter.com/moderncomments/status/616336945170419712
https://twitter.com/DCinAZ/status/616336959934312448
If they have their way, we’ll all be like Castro’s Cuba. And what a wonderful world that would be!
You guys. Someone actually wrote this. https://t.co/miugQoZuEl
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/616336706074214400
Neither does the concept of respectable journalism. At least as far as the Times is concerned.
Oh my god, please go fuck yourself NYT. https://t.co/Nk6PfBrBwK
— Kristi Hays (@KHays13) July 1, 2015
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