Fidel was not only a stalwart of anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, his commitment to environmentalism and Cuba's achievements in the area were also monumental achievements for Cuba under his decades of rule.br br “Let human life become more rational. Let us implement a just, international, economic order. Let us use all the science necessary for pollution-free, sustained development. Let us pay the ecological debt, and not the foreign debt. Let hunger disappear, and not mankind.