North Korea vs Cuba

A few days ago I just went through the DVD on how Cuba survived Peak Oil. Today I came across another article (Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba) that essentially tells us how North Korea did not survive Peak Oil.

North Korea and Cuba experienced the peak-oil scenario prematurely and abruptly due to the collapse of the former Soviet bloc and the intensified trade embargo against Cuba. The quite different outcomes are partly due to luck: the Cuban climate allows people to survive on food rations that would be fatal in North Korea’s harsh winters. But the more fundamental reason is policy. North Korea tried to carry on business as usual as long as possible, while Cuba implemented a proactive policy to move toward sustainable agriculture and self-sufficiency.

Chillingly, the main difference I derived from the article is that Cuba looked at the problem and said “let’s do something about this.”  In the case of North Korea, it seems like they simply ignored the problem, and people died of the food famine that followed.

Is Singapore looking at the problem and doing something about it?